By saluting a feat presented as unique by Remco Evenepoel, the Soudal-Quick Step team has angered some followers of women’s cycling…
Remco Evenepoel swapped a rainbow jersey for another. Crowned world champion last year in the road race, the Belgian won the Glasgow Worlds time trial this year. He is the second man to achieve such a double, after Abraham Olano, who won the road race in 1995 and the time trial three years later.
Evenepoel even achieved a feat presented as unique by his Soudal-Quick Step team, which describes him as the first rider to display world titles in both disciplines, a victory in a grand tour, and a success in a monument. .
This post from the Belgian formation caused a small controversy because many Internet users reacted by reminding the Quick-Step that this performance had already been accomplished twice in the past. By the Dutch Anna van der Breggen and Annemiek van Vleuten.
That’s what you might call a reaction. “à la Andy Murray”. Very attached to the defense of women’s sport, the Briton had corrected the sentence of a journalist during a press conference at Wimbledon in 2017. The journalist pointed out to him that Sam Querrey, his executioner, was the first American to reach a Grand Slam semi-final since Andy Roddick in 2009.
To remove the ambiguity, and avoid making women’s sport invisible, Murray wanted to add the word “masculine” to this proposal. Because if Querrey was indeed the first US man to go so far in a Grand Slam during this period, the Williams sisters, among women, had worn the American colors high…
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