Enough is enough: cycling must address its racism problem
The Bradley Wiggins Show by Eurosport
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🗓️ 18 September 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
The Tour de France takes a back seat today as Brad and Graham instead react to an interview Kevin Reza, the only black cyclist at the Tour, gave to Orla Chennaoui on Eurosport.
You can watch Reza discuss cycling's painful lack of response to the Black Lives Matter movement, and why he doesn't expect any "revolt from the peloton", here in an interview which Brad had to walk out on first time round because he found it so sad: https://bit.ly/3hE3gNm
To discuss cycling's problem with race, we invited Mani Arthur of the Black Cyclists Network back to the show. At a time when seemingly every other major sport has acknowledged Black Lives Matter, we look at why cycling has failed to do so, and the impact even a superficial gesture could have at a societal level.
We look at what to do next, and invite any riders in the peloton who feel strongly about this issue to get in touch. This is not something that we can, or should, let drop. Change has to come now.
You can follow the Black Cyclists Network on Twitter at @BCNTweet or on Instagram at @blackcyclistsnetwork
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. I'm off this week. |
| 0:04.6 | Apparently we're more productive at work after a good holiday. |
| 0:12.1 | So I'm counting this Caribbean rum distillery tour as professional development. |
| 0:21.6 | Yours calling. |
| 0:23.6 | Take your holiday as seriously as British Airways Holidays |
| 0:27.6 | Take Your Holiday. |
| 0:29.6 | Atul Protected. |
| 0:31.6 | The Welcome to the Bradley Wiggins show by Eurosport, |
| 0:45.2 | the home of cycling in association with Lacker bicycle insurance. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Graham Wilgoss. |
| 0:50.4 | With me, of course, Sir Bradley Wiggins. |
| 0:53.0 | Brad, Soren Crowe Anderson won today's stage with a solo breakaway inside the final 16 kilometres. |
| 0:59.3 | Congratulations to him. No real changes on GC. |
| 1:03.1 | But we're putting the Tour de France to one side for today because we wanted to address an issue that's far greater than cycling. |
| 1:10.1 | Yeah. Yeah. |
| 1:12.1 | For anyone who watched the breakaway or does watch it or is on social media and it's out there now, |
| 1:17.5 | our very own, all of Shenwee, did an interview with Kevin Ratzer. |
| 1:21.0 | When we watched in rehearsals, I walked out halfway through. |
| 1:23.0 | I thought it was actually quite sad. |
| 1:25.1 | And yeah, obviously it's to do, do is the only black ride in the peloton |
| 1:29.5 | that we're quite backwards in our sport on this subject and um i thought well you know what |
| 1:34.7 | this is bigger than the tour de France and i don't want it to just dwindle away you know good on all |
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