Editor: Hetty Knox
Jessica Ennis, Laura Robson, the GB women’s hockey team. These women are all high-profile, prime examples of female athletes at the top of their chosen sports and are only a small proportion of the sportswomen that have provided us with so much inspiration recently.
But despite such accomplishments in women’s sport over the last few years, there is still a gender disparity in the sporting world. Part of the problem is the lack of commercial investment in female sport. Women’s cycling has taken a huge step towards equality between male and female cyclists, with the introduction of a women’s one day race at the Tour de France and the inaugural Women’s Tour in Britain. The Women’s Tour has a prestigious line-up female riders, including Olympic gold medallists. It has enormous potential to elevate professional female cycling to a platform equal to their male counterparts’.
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