Cycling champions, high-level athletes and medical management

Cycling champions, high-level athletes and medical management

On the occasion of a report on the differences in treatment between high-level athletes in terms of salaries and medical follow-up, testimony of the MTB champion Patricia OUNZARI, cyclo-world championCross 1998 on its awards awards and the differences in treatment between men and women: shows the trophy won in Belgium "a medal, a jersey and a bottle of beer, 15 days after that is my first female award, a very ordinary lamp with a small envelope of 50 francs and the 1st senior at the national level had his small envelope of 3000 francs" In training in the woods, Patricia OUNZARI explains that "Sometimes people didn’t believe in us sportily and yet we are also able and even we go all the way on bike races compared to some boys who, as soon as it goes up a little too much, stop, the ambition we have is to practice cycling, the sport we love at our level and we would also like to have the salary next door" Interview Lilian HALLS French, Technical Advisor at the Ministry of Youth and Sports "we do not act in the interests of women but we do not act in the interests of sport and that the current situation which is excessively unbalanced harms the sport itself" then testimony of Catherine MARSAL, 1998 road cycling world champion suffering from hormonal imbalances.

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File : Women’s cycling

Publication date : 8 March 2000