ANALYSIS: Tour de France Femmes 'a first victory' for female pro cyclists
However, where the prodigious Pogačar has by all appearances always been able to call his passion a job, Žigart held off on describing women's cycling as a profession before the sport's governing body, the UCI, introduced a 15,000-euro minimum wage in 2020, which increased to 20,000 euros last year and reached 27,500 euros this season."Bringing the minimum salary, it's something that we can now actually call a job without being a little bit ashamed of who is supporting that.
In 2020 that was for contracted first-year riders 53,136 euros and for riders with more than one year of experience 65,673 euros. "These are the kind of things we are just lucky to have because we experience how it was before, when maybe it was not like this. Trek-Segafredo, which also pays equal minimum wage, even makes up the difference in men's and women's prize money at races where there is one.
"I don't regret that, and it actually led into me being on some bigger teams as well, but definitely back when I was getting into it and signing contracts, it was quite low.
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