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Good example of the strange set up is only 36 Men finished on lead lap in WC Namur. But top 50 got paid. 37th to 50th all got €300 each— Helen Wyman (@CXHelen) January 2, 2015 In same Namur WC event, 39 women finished on lead lap, only 25 got paid prize money.— Helen Wyman (@CXHelen) January 2, 2015 50th placed man at -4laps got paid €300. 11th place woman got €220. All in the same Namur WC where women couldn’t park in Elite Parking— Helen Wyman (@CXHelen) January 2, 2015 Same event, the lead woman would of ridden into the top 50 of the mens race based on lap times published. No justification for the disparity— Helen Wyman (@CXHelen) January 2, 2015 A ton of people replied to Helen that “but you ride fewer minutes so you deserve less money…. @tony4cett @punkasscg In any other job we’d be allowed to do the same amount of work. We are restricted by UCI rules. Happy to race an hour— Helen Wyman (@CXHelen) January 2, 2015 @tony4cett So basically I don’t deserve the same prize money, because men limit my opportunity to race for 1 hour. You see the issue here?— Helen Wyman (@CXHelen) January 2, 2015 and it’s hardly as though the women train less hard/travel less fair/give up less of a life cos their races are limited by the UCI.