Friday July 29, 2022, Marion Rousse spoke at the microphone of France Info. Annoyed by the misogynistic attacks targeting the Tour de France women, the young woman gave a rant.
From July 24 to 31, 2022, the women’s Tour de France was held. While it was marked by a few falls and some Internet users wrote misogynistic comments on social networks, Marion Rousse, director of the women’s Tour de France, was angry. At the microphone of France Info, she thus indicated that she preferred focus on the “95% of people conquered“rather than on”The remaining 5%, who have fun on social networks saying that girls can’t ride.” Annoyed, the young woman blurted out: “It’s ridiculous. We have almost nothing to say to them. We don’t have to justify ourselves. Falls are part of cycling, there always will be. We forget too quickly the men’s Tour of last year, with the many crashes in the first week, as in Pontivy. When the men fall on the Tour, they are brave heroes, and the women, it would be because they do not know how to ride?“
Charlotte Bravard, sports director of Saint-Michel Auber 93, supported her remarks by declaring to France Info: “Zero risk does not exist in cycling, regardless of gender. In Belgium, we take starts with more than 200 runners, on small roads. The girls are used to it.“France Télévisions consultant on men’s races, Julian Alaphilippe’s companion assured that the causes of falls were the same in men as in women.We are on the most beautiful race in the world, all the sponsors want to be at the front because they play a lot from a financial point of view. There is no better sounding board than the Tour“, she let know.
Marion Rousse: “As long as we’re not in the peloton, we can’t feel all that”
Wishing that the women’s Tour de France would be more highlighted, the young woman slipped: “The economic model of women’s cycling remains very fragile, the teams need this race to be seen, to take the light, which puts a lot of anxiety, nervousness. As long as we are not in the peloton, we cannot feel all that.“For his part, Stephen Delcourt, General Manager of FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope added:”Our sport is not mature. You have to be tolerant, let time pass. You have to understand that these girls who are students, who work, want to shine in this race. Everyone is careful, but it can happen to any runner.“
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Annoyed, Marion Rousse said: “It’s ridiculous. We have almost nothing to say to them. We don’t have to justify ourselves. Falls are part of cycling, there will always be some.”
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Angry, Marion Rousse slipped: “When men fall on the Tour, they are brave heroes, and women it would be because they don’t know how to ride?”
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Charlotte Bravard, sports director of Saint-Michel Auber 93, supported her remarks by declaring to France Info: “Zero risk does not exist in cycling, regardless of gender.”
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Consultant France Télévisions on men’s races, Julian Alaphilippe’s companion assured that the causes of falls were the same in men as in women
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From July 24 to 31, 2022, the women’s Tour de France was held.
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Wishing that the women’s Tour de France would be more highlighted, the young woman slipped: “The economic model of women’s cycling remains very fragile, the teams need this race to be seen, to take the light, which puts a lot of anxiety, nervousness.”
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Marion Rousse has been appointed director of the Tour de France Women.
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Marion Rousse at the presentation of the 109th edition of the Tour de France 2022 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris, October 14, 2021.
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Prologue of the Tour de Provence 2022 in Berre-l’Etang, February 10, 2022.
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Marion Rousse at the France Television lunch during the French Open Tennis at Roland Garros 2022 in Paris, June 3, 2022.