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Prize money is only one of the ways to progress women’s cycling – CyclingTips

Flanders Classics’ Maja Leye responds to the prize money storm. She feels that Flanders Classics should have maybe tooted their own horn a bit more about all the…

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Maja Leye is at the centre of a social media storm that crashed over her and race organiser Flanders Classics last week after fans expressed their dismay at the large pay disparity between the pro men and pro women at Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. The story, spurred on by a simple pie chart showing that Anna van der Breggen won less than 1/16th the prize money of men’s winner Davide Ballerini, led to increased calls for equal prize money and even a crowdfunding effort to level the prize money at Strade…

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