Posted on 05/01/2023 11:52:50 AM PDT by grundle
Transgender cyclist Austin Killips wins Stage 5 Gila Monster to take home the overall victory at Tour of the Gila
In what has been described as a "Lia Thomas moment" for cycling, Austin Killips, a 27-year-old transgender rider, has won first prize for women at the Tour of the Gila, the premier road race in New Mexico.
It marked the most significant result yet for Killips, a trans-identifying biological male from Chicago, who also won a medal in women's cyclocross at the US National Championships and who is now tipped to challenge for a place at the Tour de France Femmes and at next summer's Paris Olympics.
This year's running of the Tour of the Gila marked the first time in the event's 36-year history that equal prize money had been offered, with a total purse of $35,350 (£28,145) in both the men's and women's races. Killips, who only took up cycling in 2019 before starting on hormone replacement therapy, earned almost £8,000 for finishing top of the women's general classification, plus an £800 bonus as "Queen of the Mountains".
"Austin is cycling's equivalent of Lia Thomas," Inga Thompson, a three-time US Olympian and five-time national road race champion, told The Telegraph. Thomas won a US women's collegiate title in swimming last year, in the 200-yard freestyle, having been ranked 554th in the country in the equivalent male category.
"This really highlights the issues that are happening to women in cycling," Thompson said. "We have more than 50 transgender women in the sport. And what's going on in the background is that women are just quietly walking away. They think, 'Why bother, if it's not fair?'"
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Sorry to say women’s sports will soon become extinct.
Except LPGA. Those Korean women can chip and putt.
NO SUCH THING! Follow the science as we’ve been told sooooo many times. 😬
There are some proud parents!!
The new tried and tested way for weak and low quality men to win at sports: compete with women where the bar is lower. Do these men really get any satisfaction out of ‘winning’ ?
Except LPGA.“
Don’t be so sure. It won’t be long now, it’s coming
A group of the real women cyclists should waylay this poseur and surgically remove the offending appendage.
That photo! Yuck! I guess it’s hard to tuck the tallywhacker in those bike shorts.
LPGA plays on short courses. What matters is chipping and putting skills. Biological males do not have any advantage.
The fact that they awarded a victory to that guy de-legitimizes the whole thing.
One more event for the “Destroyed by Democrats” list.
I dunno, being on a par 4 green in 1 is a nice advantage.
Coach Vince Lombardi....”Only thing which matters is winning”.
We’ll see. There is money on to be made.
The trans-genders do not come from championship class of golfers. They are flunkies on men’s tour having won nothing.
Yes, if players like Tiger Woods became women, they could sweep the LPGA. But thankfully the well known winners on PGA are not into sex manipulation’s.
These former men are doing a great service to women by breaking all the records and proving that women can be much better after being men.
So a guy beat girls in a bike race.
And he thinks he’s special .
I truly can’t comprehend what possible satisfaction a man could get by winning this way. These male trannies must really hate women, that’s the only thing I can figure.
If women don’t care, I don’t care. This will stop when women stop showing up to compete.
The Left's war on women continues.
Women athletes need to sue.
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