Philippa York's Incredible Sporting Career & Life After Cycling | Eurosport

[@projekct_amk]

Phillipa was my inspiration and hero when i was starting out. Im glad she's found a happy place! Chapeau

[@chriswright9096]

Philippa inspired me to get into cycling in the mid 80s. Now at the age of 57 I'm still hitting the climbs. Chapeau Philippa!

[@Chris-xv2gm]

It is not 'Pippa' - this is Robert Miller. HE is a man. Always was and always will be. People lome you are as derranged as he is. For God's sake, grow up and grow a pair.

[@davehanhela5997]

I'm 52 - same here!

[@arcboutant]

I’m glad to see her getting recognition . About time.

[@migliaman]

Loved the then Robert Millar and now Pippa York.....what a fantastic person and superb athlete!

[@BertoBerg]

Phillipa has so much insight into racing and life in general! Thanks for sharing.

[@zlatastocard]

Thank you @eurosport pour ce beau reportage avec les mots justes de Philippa.

[@AM-FTK]

A Scottish sporting legend. Thanks for the great memories!❤❤

[@belbrighton6479]

What an amazing story, awesome, thank you for sharing some of your story. 🎉

[@Ember2remember]

Such an inspiration. What an amazing video.

[@carolinearno3150]

Beautiful video thank you

[@plowestv]

This is brilliant! What a great woman you are and I hope to still lose weight and pull on your 84 replica QOTM shirt. Wonderful 🙂

[@guilhermemauricio4858]

I hope she is happy now

[@Enevan1968]

One of the first sportspersons I heard were vegetarian and prove that you dind't have to have steak and eggs for breakfast before a roadrace.

[@MrGroenland1]

Grand grimpeur. Je me rappelle de Millar chez TVM en 1992/93 avec Gert-Jan Theunisse

[@robertbesch1672]

Wow thats so nice. Philipa is a great sportif woman an a so good person for all the LBGTQU+Sportif people how are transgender etc. She can give them confidence to be what they want to be. I like her very much. All the best for her❤🏳️‍🌈.

[@GuyE.]

...it's a long way from Culoison days in Troyes.

[@danjames4086]

Isn't Phillioa's accent amazing? Scots, but with just a hint of French. If ever there was an advocate or figurehead for trans athletetes, Phillipa fits the bill. Not shouty or political, just calm and asking for fairness. The whole issue if trans athletes in sport fascinates me. It's early days and sports haven't sorted out decent ways of allowing fair competition, but I'm sure it will come. I'm reading about Beryl Burton at the moment, and how her achievements would have eclipsed many male competitors at the time. Imagine if classes had existed then to allow side by side comparisons? Same with track and field sports, where seemingly arbitrary decisions are made on what events women can compete in compared to men. Instead of gender/sex being a barricade across sports, if it's handled well, we could be on the boundary of entirely new classes of sport, with all sorts of interesting possibilities.

[@madisonvillavert745]

I support transgender people who transitioned in sport but the argument that transgenders just want to compete and not to dominate is flawed. Biologist's are clear that men who transitioned have a biological advantage over females. In this situation, if you are a trained male athlete that transitioned and compete against females, you will dominate whether you like it or not. So its not fair just like it is not fair to line you up against male athletes.

[@Lea-mu4pz]

Well show the actual studies from those biologist. Oh wait they don't exist. There is no actual serious studies that say that there is advantages.

[@danjames4086]

The trouble is the boundaries permeate right through sport, even down to the most amateur level. Take mass participation events like Parkrun. There are still age and gender 'divisions', even though it really doesn't matter, because the only person you are competing against is yourself...and the spirit of the event is participation, not winning. It's a really interesting arena with loads of room for innovation. Cycling is especially interesting when it comes to endurance. Off the top of my head, biologically female competitors have advantages when it comes to endurance. So who says what happens at the limits of extreme endurance when it comes to differences in sex? Personally I welcome the challenges that sport will have to overcome, and seeing what it throws up. I imagine a 15 stone amateur male boxer going up against a 7 stone professional female boxer, and seeing what happens. It could show that skill and experience count for far more than brute power. It coukd show the opposits. Either way it opens up all sorts of possibilities.

[@Orange-4688]

@@Lea-mu4pz The no actual serious studies, is that because it doesn't fit in with your rhetoric?