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Mickie_Cricket
@Calumonwheels
Well I am not. That is just a fact. What makes me very angry with the cycling industry more broadly is that much worse than Hambini is routinely ignored and even celebrated. We have an entire thread celebrating Peter Sagan on this forum, 'hero on the bike' https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/277547/ . As far as I am concerned he is trash. All the facts about his attitudes and behaviours are out there. What's the excuse for looking the other way once those facts are known?
It isn't about "bad behaviour on the podium" because this behaviour doesn't happen in isolation. That's just what he's been caught doing on camera.
I appreciate what you are getting at but this is dissonant attitude in this industry and 'culture' gets on my nerves and I can assure you I'm not the only one in the cycle industry frustrated that tolerance of sexism and literal assault is rife when it's from people with the right logos on their jerseys. Certainly Hambini is repugnant and I will have nothing to do with him, ever again. My concern is that the totally dominant misogyny in cycling, from the media to the pro scene to the product sector is always, always looked the other way on.