TEASER: When Athletes Ditch the Car
The War on Cars
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4.9 • 937 Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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During the recent US Open Tennis Championships in New York City, top-seeded American player Jessica Pegula got some attention when she posted an Instagram reel showing her taking the subway from Manhattan to the event venue in Queens. “I don't like taking a car, and I like trains,” she said. “So I always try and take the train.”
We can relate.
Pegula’s post inspired us to have a discussion about other sports stars who, at least occasionally, like to skip the luxury SUV or Lamborghini in favor of non-car modes (LeBron!)—and why we should care about it.
(As for Pegula, opting for the subway obviously didn’t hurt her tournament one bit—she made it to the final, her first time to do so in a Grand Slam!)
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| 0:31.0 | and a handwritten note. I will say also to kind of contradict myself from |
| 0:35.8 | earlier where I was saying that like it shouldn't be exceptional that these elite |
| 0:39.6 | athletes are biking to work. It's a sign of progress of our movement that you're seeing more and more of these stories. |
| 0:47.0 | That they are actually becoming a little less exceptional than they used to be. |
| 0:51.0 | And so, you know, if you live in a place where you're, you know, star |
| 0:54.8 | pitcher or your star center or your forward or whatever, am I using the right terms to the crime? |
| 1:00.8 | Yeah. Those are sports positions right sports positions but when they are showing up in that way |
| 1:09.0 | maybe it's a sign your city is doing something right that these guys feel like they can issue the |
| 1:14.3 | normal trappings of sports celebrity and not pull up in like the Lamborghini |
| 1:18.3 | with the wing doors or whatever and just show up on a bike so that's that's good. |
| 1:22.1 | Yeah and we had a great example of that |
| 1:25.6 | during the Paris Olympics, which, you know, Paris really went all out |
| 1:30.8 | to try to improve its bike share availability and to make sure that it's |
| 1:39.0 | transit was functioning at top capacity because you know the Olympics right so they really |
| 1:46.2 | really went in on that and one of the great moments that showed that they had |
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