The 1994 and 1997 world champion triathlete alleges the only way to solve the widespread issues in Triathlon Australia is through an independent review, with athletes at the forefront.

The main alleged issues - intimidation, control, limited pathways, coaching restraints - focuses on athlete agreements.

TA responded in an open letter by suspending Carney's membership and claiming all of the allegations were inaccurate, unfounded and part of a "concerted campaign to destabilise" it.

However, they said they were committed to providing relevant information to Sport Integrity Australia, and took athlete's safety and wellbeing matters extremely seriously.

"Triathlon Australia has repeatedly offered to meet with the former elite triathlete to provide an opportunity to discuss their concerns directly, but all of these offers have been rejected," it read.

"We continue to encourage anyone who has a specific member protection concern to raise it through the appropriate channels which can be found on our website. Abuse, harassment and bullying have no place in our sport. We urge all our members to continue to participate in our great sport in a spirit of mutual respect."

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Athlete agreements are one of Carney's biggest concerns, as she said they took liberty away from athletes.

"[They] are aware of member concerns and their response to so many member protection policy complaints over the years are to just shut them down," she said.

"I think if an athlete at any point speaks up to say they're not happy, they will be immediately removed or left on the outer; where selection, support, transparency and athlete safeguarding, and things will be made extremely difficult for them to progress.

"It stems from the really, really, massive disparity in power of national sporting organisations over athletes. And this goes unchecked. That's not good, it's absolutely awful and it breaks my heart, that's why I'm doing this.

"Sport Integrity seven weeks ago started taking complaints from members and they're still sifting through them. The member protection is basically around athlete safeguarding, member protection and integrity of governance issues and then we've got race fixing on top of that."

Three Australian coaches told The Sunday Telegraph TA allegedly said it only wanted specific athletes to win qualifying races in the lead-up to Tokyo to boost rankings and secure all six quota spots.

TA has denied the race fixing allegations.

A joint investigation between TA and the AIS was already underway into the sport's high performance programs following the teams' results at Tokyo, driven by a nine-person steering group.

Carney has slammed the review, claiming a high performance review will only scratch the surface of TA's broader problems.

"The athlete agreements are appalling. There are clauses preventing athletes from being able to gain sponsorship freely, and athletes have to show [TA] all contracts over a certain value to approve," the Sport Australia Hall of Fame athlete said.

"There should be no control over how the athlete sets up their sponsorship other than the normal rules of governing sport. There is a very limited period where they are actually a professional athlete and able to race for Australia.

"The athletes are so broken, and so, so sick of this, I want to help them. Really good athletes could easily walk away. They know that it's wrong, they know how wearing it is, they know how damaging it is and they're very aware of how it's ruining their career."

TA denied Carney's allegation of wrongdoing and said its governance structures were consistent with other national sporting organisations.

"Our governance practices are reviewed by Sport Australia on an annual basis and have been recognised as exceeding the national standard among national sporting organisations.

"We are proud that our robust systems and processes, along with our qualified, passionate and dedicated people, continue to lead the way in best practice sports governance and administration," it read.