Just as when she gave the podium’s speech in Stole, of which she says “there was pressure on this interview,” Deignan chooses her words carefully, but effectively here.
The “underestimation” to which it refers is any suggestions from other people that female sport somehow does not have the same punch or power as men.
And social media posts also had an impact that all three agree – and that the impact was widely positive.
“Social media have had a huge influence on women’s sport,” says Deignan, who won many of the sports’s biggest races, including one -day France tour and Liege Bastogne Liege Classic.
“If there is any inequality, it is called very quickly, and we are able to introduce ourselves to sponsors of our own backs; people can become their own mark in sport.
“It has its inactive side – [Cat and Imogen] They are under more pressure than ever. People know everything you are doing and know how it is doing. But it’s worth it as long as you learn to manage expectations and pressure. “
Ferguson adds that “it doesn’t look like pressure yet.”
“It’s all so new and exciting,” she says. “We may feel more as we get older.”
But the pressure comes from all areas, including the top, as it remembers a problem with the ruler organ of the World Cycling.
“In my post-corridor interview at the 2012 London Olympics, I was invited to tighten the hand of the president of UCI [at the time Pat McQuaid] And I was a little annoyed. He was not doing anything to the feminine side of the sport and was running away.
“I took the opportunity to speak at the press conference. [As] GB’s first medalist suddenly became the headlines – it was quite scary.
“I’m still happy to have done that. That’s how I was raised. It didn’t seem like a big deal to scream on the inequality I was facing.
“But I realize now that it’s not so easy for everyone to do this, the confrontation is not comfortable for everyone.”
“The work Lizzie did in sport allowed me and IMogen have careers,” says Ferguson. “Ultimately, be paid at the age of 18, [when] I don’t think it was possible for Lizzie to do this when she was 18.
“There is also much more legislation in cycling, such as the salary of maternity and it all depends on Lizzie.”
