Emma Pooley: 'Twitter outrage proves people do want to see more women's cycling'

Emma Pooley also claims no individuals at British Cycling should be subject to sexism accusations

(Image credit: Andy Jones 2014)

Emma Pooley says that the reaction on Twitter to Pete Kennaugh's tweets saying that no one cared about the women's Giro d'Italia is evidence that people actually do want to watch more women's cycling.

Responding to Pooley's comments in a Guardian article which questioned why Sky didn't also create a leading women's team that could have helped her to win the Giro d'Italia Femminile, Kennaugh said that Sky wouldn't financially back such a team because it is a race that "absolutely no one in the UK has absolutely no idea about."

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Chris Marshall-Bell

A freelance sports journalist and podcaster, you'll mostly find Chris's byline attached to news scoops, profile interviews and feature writing across a variety of different publications. He has been writing regularly for Cycling Weekly since 2013.


Previously a ski, hiking and cycling guide in a number of places, but mostly in the Canadian Rockies and Spanish Pyrenees, he almost certainly holds the record for the most number of interviews conducted from snowy mountains.


He lives in Valencia, Spain.