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Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by bell-cot on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @12:04PM (#40867282)
From a quick skim here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_teams_and_cyclists_in_... - all but one team are from well-to-do Western countries, or rich Gulf States. Cyclists seem similarly all-but-a-few white.

Anyone can learn a bunch of gymnastic moves, too. But last I heard, "Olympic Gymnast" implies a >1k hour/year training regimen, starting at an extremely young age.

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Re:Fuelling the Tour de France: Secrets of the team kitchens by tpm on Wednesday July 03, 2024 @02:19PM (#40868629)
Primoz Roglic was a ski jumper before he was one of the best cyclists. There are several others like him.

Most of the cyclists are white, yes, for me this is an issue (and I am white), but what I like is that there are now many from Colombia (because of the mountains there? And probably also some cycling culture), a few days ago a cyclist from Eritrea won a TdF stage.. it's slowly getting more diverse.

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