Mike Smalling
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I really don't envy the women competing at the highest levels of these kinds of endurance/racing sports that seem to be mostly in focus in the trans debate (cycling, swimming, athletics, etc.). It's among the sports where the athletes train and suffer the hardest, so to feel like they are being undercut by a group having an unfair advantage must be difficult. And then there is the risk of the shitstorm if they do speak out. Caught between a rock and a hard place.
They are also going to be fighting a somewhat lonely battle, because the female versions of these sports don't have a big following. Cycling for women, for instance, is still very immature. It wasn't until last year that the Tour de France Femmes was held as a proper stage rage for the first time.
They are also going to be fighting a somewhat lonely battle, because the female versions of these sports don't have a big following. Cycling for women, for instance, is still very immature. It wasn't until last year that the Tour de France Femmes was held as a proper stage rage for the first time.