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“Cycling did a lot for me and I just really loved it. “I think that when you do love it and you recognise that it’s a beautiful sport but women’s cycling has just never been really well funded or supported, it becomes your passion – your mission – to try and change that in some way. I think there’s a lot of people out there now who are trying to do that, which is really great, from a lot of different angles. It is what we need to grow the sport because all women’s sports suffer in that way. But you just have to keep pushing and try to make change. And that was a lot of fun for us because we were very serious on the bike and very serious about the way we ran the team but we also tried to incorporate a bit of fun into it.

Men don’t even know women’s cycling. I was in Lucca [Italy] last year riding with some of the Tinkoff guys. I said I’d bring my teammate Tayler and I said we’ll meet you, it’s just an easy ride, we’re just cruising. I start talking to one of the guys and I think he was South American maybe. So he spoke Spanish, but I don’t speak Spanish, but I speak some Italian and he spoke some Italian, his English was pretty bad. So we decided to have a conversation in Italian. So finally he asked me, ‘well are you pro?’ And I was just like ‘What?!’ I’m not one to hold back, or be quiet. So Tayler hears me, ‘Are you kidding me, are you joking?” Yes we’re professional. Tayler hears me yelling at this guy, and she’s like, “she won the world championship in the team time trial!’ We’re both Specialized teams. How did you not know that our team exists?