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"textContent": "I have heard the line often enough over the years. A women’s race has a messy finale, a crash splits the bunch, or a rider goes down in a nervous section, and out comes the familiar verdict: women’s cycling is dangerous, the bunch lacks skill, the fields are too mixed, the racing is too chaotic. […]\n\nThe post Men crash too: why the Giro d’Italia 2026 should challenge lazy narratives about women’s cycling appeared first on ProCyclingUK.",
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