Ross Edgar, the Australian Cycling team's coach for track and sprint, has revealed his disappointment at losing his job as a result of the national team's restructuring announced last week.

Edgar released a statement titled "Cycling Australia Exit Statement" on Sunday, saying, "CA's latest restructuring has sadly made me and my partner Bernie victims of the layoffs. There has been no consultation, no compensation and no remorse. [This leaves us with 60 days, or now 57 days, to leave Australia with our 4-month-old baby boy and find ourselves in the middle of a global pandemic. Thank you, Simon," he writes. Presumably referring to the fact that he is no longer granted a work visa, "Simon" refers to Simon Jones, the performance director of the Australian Cycling Team.

Jones brought Edgar on board in September 2017 from Team Sky, where he was head of performance support and innovation, and had previously been an endurance coach with British Cycling.

A former track rider, Edgar won a silver medal for Great Britain in the Keirin at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. At the Games, British cyclists Bradley Wiggins, Victoria Pendleton, and Chris Hoy won seven gold medals in track, and Nicole Cook won gold in the women's road race.

After retiring, she coached at the UCI World Cycling Center in Switzerland and later joined Cycling Australia.

CA announced Thursday that it will restructure 11 roles across its track and paracycling programs.

It continued that the review was always scheduled to take place after the scheduled 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games, but the decision to restructure was brought forward due to the postponement of the Games (summer 2021) due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"We are very conscious of the timing of these decisions, but the postponement of the Olympic and Paralympic Games made it necessary to make these changes now.

In a statement on Sunday, Edgar continued: "Despite the daily trials and tribulations, we were always determined to finish what we started and had planned to return to Europe after the Games, but with unfinished business and a heavy heart, our return was brutally moved forward."

Edgar thanked his fellow staff members and the players he had worked with, adding that he and his partners were "disheartened, but not defeated."

Edgar's full statement can be read on Twitter at.