Exploring the Lack of Diversity in Cycling: Perspectives from Tour de France Players

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Lack of infrastructure, lack of attractiveness, lack of will to detect… “Libé” questioned cycling players about the lack of diversity in the discipline, as the Tour de France ends this Sunday.

It’s hard not to notice it. While cycling is a sport that is said to be increasingly globalized, the peloton that has been valiantly crossing France for three weeks is essentially white. The French, they are all, on this 2023 edition crushed by the Danish robotics Jonas Vingegaard. If we compare fashionable team sports with us such as football, basketball, rugby or handball, or individual sports such as judo, fencing, athletics, the finding may surprise. How can a popular discipline – by the number of viewers (France TV breaks records), supporters on the side of the roads, even daily practice for leisure or going to work – not represent the diversity of French society? Why are the Nacer Bouhanni, Lorenzo Manzin or Kévin Réza so few? We asked the question

2023-07-22 11:16:02
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