Wiggins willing to financially support a British women's team
Women riders “the for🎉gotten ones🌠 in the sport”
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bradley Wiggins supports professional women's cycling and is in fact ready to put his money into it. He w💛ould be willing to make a financial investment in a “full-on” elite women'💮s team, he has said.
“I would like to help form a women’s team ,” he told The Telegraph. “I have no idea what🍰 it would cost but it would be someth🅠ing I would be willing to put in some of my own money in to start up.”
The Tour de France winner and Olympic champion would only be interested in a full-fledged effort, though. 𝓡“It would have to be all or nothing, though, I wouldn’t want to be involved in a tuppence-ha’penny team. It would have to꧒ be a full-on set up.”
Women's cycling is notori🌺ously underpaidꦆ as compared to the elite men, and there is much instability with sponsors. For example, the team AA Drink-Leontien.nl will stop at the end of this season.
One of Britain's top riders, Emma Pooley, who is on that team, recently told Cyclingnews, “I’m considering or taking a ye💦ar off. I have spoken to other teams but the whole climate in women’s cycling is not very encouraging. Although some women&rsquo🐽;s teams are really well run, there's such a hand to mouth existence. Every year it seems like a team folds and it’s a lot of stress.”
Wiggins is willing to do ꩲhis part to change th💞is. “I just have an amazing respect for what our women do. They are the forgotten ones in the sport and yet they have just as big a success as we do with the men.”
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