Laura Robinson is a Canadian sports journalist who reported on abuse and discrimination against Black and Indigenous peoples, female athletes and students.

Robinson grew up in Mississauga, Ontario in the 1970s and wanted to be a world-champion cyclist when she grew up. Her career began as a young woman, and she started racking up trophies, including Ontario Cycling Championship three times as well as a rowing championship.

It was during her time as an athlete that she witnessed first-hand the discrimination that young women were facing. The prizes for women were bubble bath and sewing machines but the prizes for men were new bikes or cash.

Then, in 1987, she had a serious cycling accident in Vancouver which motivated her to discover a new path: journalism.

Her work on gender and racial discrimination has not been an easy road. Working for larger media conglomerates, she was expected to play nice with sponsors and CEOs of major companies with her story-telling, she said, but she continued to forge her way to uncover truths about the insidious side of sports.

Her work has been featured in The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, Now Magazine (Toronto), The Georgia Straight, CBC's The Fifth Estate (titled 'Sexual Abuse: Sport's Dirty Little Secret') and others. She has published two books: Crossing the Line: Sexual Assault in Canada's National Sport and Cyclist BikeList: The Book for Every Rider.

Listen to Pam Haasen's interview with journalist Laura Robinson on 'The Scrum', a monthly series where CICK News speaks to northern journalists: