Episode 61 - Athlete Pay, Lycra, Equality and More from the State of the Sport Survey

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

With our State of the Sport Survey, James Smurthwaite and Henry Quinney reached out to nearly 200 top professional riders. The goal was to piece together the largest public snapshot ever taken of professional mountain biking in the history of the sport. What'd we ask them? Topics included media and filming, home country support, physical and mental health support, athlete pay, opportunities and equality, racing regulations, and a women's specific section.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody and welcome back to another pink pod.
0:10.9	This one is a special episode.
0:12.7	We're going to dig into the results of our massive state of the sports survey that saw us
0:17.6	pull nearly 200 of mountain biking's professional athletes.
0:22.0	Now, the survey was anonymous, and it quizzed riders on things like pay, physical and mental support,
0:28.7	opportunities and equality, regulations, media, home country support, and women's specific issues.
0:35.5	Now, this poll went out to everybody from downhillers, indoor riders, cross-country riders, and even some free riders.
0:43.9	Now, there are a lot of numbers, and to help us unpack some of these, I've got our very own ex-pro mountain boarder,
0:50.9	James Smirthwaite, boss man Brian Park, and some guy who loves hard to live with
0:56.4	internal cable routing named Henry Quinny.
0:59.5	All right, let's get into it.
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1:32.1	All right, James, I'm used to going on to the Pink Bike and seeing reviews of knee pads and race coverage and all sorts of other things.
1:40.0	But now we got all this survey stuff up there. I think we have. I mean, how many survey articles altogether are we going to have, James? And can you tell me why did you do it? Why are we
1:49.9	doing this massive survey? Yeah, we're going to get into double figures and then there'll be a big
1:54.3	data dump at the end so you can kind of pick through at your leisure and maybe find some other
1:58.4	things in there. We mainly did it. Gosh, I don't know. I guess there was
2:03.9	a story we kind of blew in February and ever since that I kind of wanted to take on a project
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