Tour de France: € 50,000 for women, € 500,000 for men! “You have to compare what is comparable,” replies Marion Rousse! (VIDEO)

But while this new edition of the Tour de France women with Zwift set off this Saturday, July 26 from Vannes, in Brittany, the question of bonuses, and especially their difference with those of men, returned to the table. Meanwhile, And it must be said that the gap is size. Therefore, While the winner of the general classification will receive 50. Moreover, 000 euros, we remain very, even very far from the 500,000 euros pocketed by Tadej Pogačar, winner of the male version.

And it is at the microphone of our colleagues from Clapping mediathat the Director of the Tour. Meanwhile, Consultant, wanted to put things in context and to light up some gray areas: “You have to realize that female cycling, 4 years ago, tour de france: € 50,000 it was nonexistent“, she begins before adding that before the tour, female competitions simply did not pass on television.

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“There was no salary. Meanwhile, The girls were professional but they had to work in the afternoon to earn a salary. “Joute Marion Rousse, who explains that this new media coverage (“Over 190 TVs around the world “) made it possible to bring sponsors and indirectly, a minimum wage to women professional cyclists. A considerable advance in female cycling. “I think it was the most important. to be able to live from your passion rather than stop on bonuses that do not make our salary at all.”

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Strong words, supported by a clear desire to refocus the debate. And besides. the tour de france: € 50,000 director wanted to reframe the comparison often made between the two towers, male and female: “We took the race Tour de France men which lasts 3 weeks with the Tour de France women with Zwift which lasts 9 days of racing. Obviously you have to compare what is comparable. “

She then took another example, more equitable according to her: the Critérium du Dauphiné, a week’s male race. And the observation. according to her, is final: “When you compare the price grid, the Tour de France women with Zwift is higher than the price made for men on the same day of the race. “

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And if some hope to see the premiums of the female tour climb quickly. Marion Rousse recalls tour de france: € 50,000 what, according to her, must be the absolute priority: “You should not grow too fast and above all you have to perpetuate the race because if the event next year stops, it would be a disaster for female cycling that evolves from year to year and very quickly. “

Without excluding a future evolution of premiums, of course: “But it is clearly not the priority “she concludes. This is said!