Originally Posted by
Leinster
All of this. If she'd finished 10th, she might've got herself fired, but a rainbow jersey would tend to mitigate a lot of sins.
And I'm sure her decision was made well before the last minute, and UHC people knew well before the last minute. I guess the real question is, if it was as simple as getting her body position an inch lower, why had Wilier not done something about it sooner? She's been riding for UHC through all of 2015 and, between her, the team and the bike supplier, they're only now getting around to addressing the fact that her old bike was faster on a 30km TT course?
Because being a female professional...she gets a bike a kit and that is about it. Unlike Sagan or Cav that can just ask for a different bike and have it appear.
There's a reason why the budget needed to put on a top-notch women's team is at most 1/10 or 1/20 what a top men's team budget is...because the women are lucky to get
a road bike and
a TT bike and clothes to wear from their team. Simply getting a salary, you have to be the top of the top-and even then said salary is quite punk.