You have to love the French.

Fr Tod Umptious

So they sent their male and female cycling teams to the world championship in Australia.

The men's team went business the ladies and juniors in economy.

And they made zero apologies for it.

They could not send everyone business class.

The men had a chance of winning three world titles in a row, the ladies were not as competitive.

So they were not going to risk their chances with the men for the sake of gender equality or woke outrage.

http://bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/62939984

Leg End Reject

You should post this in the woke thread. 😁

Wanderer78

if they were real men they should have cycled all the way!

Sacre bleu..

Jequ0n

We generally don’t have this very British/ Irish over the top apologising fetish.

85603

Actually this was very progressive.

This is just a way of showing solidarity with Islamic law. Women should be 10 paces behind.

odyssey06

Or the Irish solution is don't send anybody...

"Some countries, like Ireland, have decided not to participate in the World Championships..."

Disgracefully, the French suggest in other circumstances they would have put some MEN in steerage...

"If we had the mountain bike world championships in Australia with the same economic choice to make, we would put the two girls in business and the boys in economy", he said, referring to four-time cross country world champion Pauline Ferrand-Prevot and European champion Loana Lecomte.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/62939984