Paris-Roubaix, as in so many other things, it is a ‘monument’ not only for cycling but also for the demands of womenthe event that boosted the riders and the race that paved the way and ended up deciding the Tour organizers to fight for the yellow jersey too, in a first edition of the French round which was a success and which this year will lead them to decide victory at the top of the Tourmalet.

Two years ago, the British Lizzie Deignan inaugurated the women’s track record in the ‘Infierno del Norte’. He gained prestige, he marked out the path to follow between cobblestones and mud, but, truth be told, he got little reward for relaxing later watching his bank account grow on the internet. He barely earned 1,500 euros for the victory. Women cyclists raised their hands and protested. Hadn’t they suffered against the stones of Roubaix in a wild edition, with neighborhood and cold? Sonny Colbrelli, the cyclist whose heart stopped in the Volta 2022, won the men’s edition the next day and got a nice reward; €30,000; without a doubt, an excessive difference between the sexes when it comes to pedalling.

From then on, all women’s bike races increased prize money to equal or at least come close to victory rewards for male riders. In 2021, in an edition held in October, instead of April, due to the restrictions that existed in France in the spring of that year due to the coronavirus, A new female phase has begun after television ratings records in France were exceptional in terms of female career tracking.

The media impact served as the launch for the Tour and for many of the top men’s teams to decide to incorporate women into their ranks; a before and after, in a feminine Paris-Roubaix which occupies the eve of the arrival of the men; this Sunday, again with the eternal and inexhaustible duel between Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert, the latter with a physical problem, following his fall in the Tour of Flanders.

The third edition of the cobblestone hell race It was more suffered for women than that which men will find this Sundaysince the terrain will be drier, with less mud and above all with less slippery cobblestones than they were this Saturday due to the rains of the previous days.

Above all, there was a fall which was decisive for the victory of the Canadian Alison Jackson. The favorites overpowered the breakaway when a slip caused a serious crash. They all went to the ground and escape gained faith and hope of victory. It was not the time for capture and the Canadian EF runner won the most important victory of her sporting career at 34 and above all the reward of 20,000 euros, still far from the 30,000 that the male winner will enter this Sunday. but at least at an economic amount far from the derisory 1,500 euros that were delivered just two years ago.