Champion cyclist pleads guilty to lesser charge after death of Olympian wife in Australia

Australian former world champion bike owner Rohan Dennis admitted Tuesday to a cost of making a threat of hurt in relation to the December 2023 highway loss of life of his Olympian spouse Melissa Hoskins.

Dennis pleaded responsible in Adelaide Magistrates Courtroom to an aggravated cost of making chance of hurt after a automotive he was driving hit her, in response to Australian public broadcaster ABC and CBS Information accomplice BBC News.

Prosecutors had agreed to not proceed with expenses of “inflicting loss of life by harmful driving” and “driving with out due care and endangering life”, the ABC stated.

His lawyer instructed the courtroom that Dennis, 34, didn’t intend to kill Hoskins.

“There was no intention of Mr. Dennis to hurt his spouse and this cost doesn’t cost him with duty for her loss of life,” the retired athlete’s lawyer instructed the courtroom, the BBC reported.

Hoskins, a retired monitor bike owner who represented Australia on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, died in an Adelaide hospital from critical accidents after the incident. On the 2016 Video games, she was hospitalized after being involved in a high-speed crash on the Olympic Velodrome throughout coaching, ABC reported.

She rode within the Australian group that received the group pursuit occasion on the 2015 Observe Biking World Championships in France. 

Dennis received the world time trials in 2018 and 2019, in addition to a 2015 stage win within the Tour de France.  He retired on the finish of the 2023 season, the BBC reported.

Dennis – who has two kids with Hoskins – might be sentenced at a later date, the BBC reported. They married in 2018.