‘Appalling’: The Paralympic Women’s Cycling Course Is Just Half the Length of the Men’s

September 4, 2024

Though there’s been a bunch of recent, exciting progress made in narrowing the gender equity gap in sports, there’s still much more work to be done. And the Paralympic women’s cycling course at the 2024 Paris Games is one prime example of where parity continues to fall short—literally. The course for the women’s C5 road time trial measured just half the length of the men’s, as BBC Sports reported.

Women’s gold medalist Sarah Storey, who finished first in the C5 time trial event on September 4 with a time of 20:22.15, said on Twitter she was “so proud to have won this race five times in a row.” But, per BBC Sports, she also expressed her disappointment over the abbreviated distance. SELF