A cycling champion has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge following the death of the Olympian’s wife in Australia

Australian former world champion in cycling Rohan Dennis pleaded guilty Tuesday to a charge of creating a risk of harm in connection with the December 2023 traffic death of his Olympic wife, Melissa Hoskins.

Dennis pleaded guilty in the Adelaide Magistrates Court to an aggravated assault charge of causing harm after crashing the car he was driving, according to records. Australian public broadcaster ABC and CBS News partner BBC News.

Prosecutors have agreed not to pursue charges of “causing death by dangerous driving” and “driving without due care and endangering life”, ABC reports.

His lawyer told the court that Dennis, 34, had no intention of killing Hoskins.

“Mr. Dennis had no intention of harming his wife, and this charge does not accuse him of responsibility for her death,” the retired athlete’s lawyer told the court, according to the BBC.

Hoskins, a retired track cyclist who represented Australia at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, died in an Adelaide hospital from serious injuries following the incident. At the 2016 Games she was hospitalized after being involved in a high-speed accident at the Olympic Velodrome during training, ABC reported.

She competed in the Australian team that won the team pursuit at the 2015 Track Cycling World Championships in France.

Dennis won the World Time Trials in 2018 and 2019 and won a stage of the Tour de France in 2015. He retired at the end of the 2023 season, BBC reported.

Dennis, who has two children with Hoskins, will be sentenced at a later date, the BBC reports. They got married in 2018.