{"id":1977964,"date":"2026-06-07T19:23:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1977964"},"modified":"2026-06-07T19:23:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T16:23:02","slug":"top-agent-carera-attends-giro-women-says-mens-and-womens-cycling-will-be-more-equal-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1977964","title":{"rendered":"Top Agent Carera Attends Giro Women, Says Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Cycling Will Be More Equal, Eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"
He\u2019s most famed as the agent of Tadej Poga\u010dar but Alex Carera can see a time when there is much greater equality of opportunity between men and women cyclists.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s his clear message upon attending the Giro d\u2019Italia Women in recent days, with Carera witnessing considerable growth in this area of the sport in recent years and being optimistic about more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that women\u2019s cycling grows year by year,\u201d he said. \u201cThe sponsors have more visibility. Then also the athletes have more exposure in the media and the social media and so on.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it is very important that in the future that the same advantages that the men have, the women have. Because cycling is a really hard sport, not only for the men but also for the women.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso yesterday we saw on TV the great show for the big athletes that every day are really, really professional.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Carera\u2019s A&J All Sports agency represents a wide number of riders throughout the sport, including Poga\u010dar but also his partner Ur\u0161ka \u017digart, Elisa Balsamo, Silvia Persico, Mavi Garcia and other women.<\/p>\n
Balsamo won four stages at the Giro, proving to be the best sprinter in the race.<\/p>\n
His athletes also include Vuelta Espa\u00f1a Femenina winner Paula Blasi, perhaps the most exciting young female rider in the sport.<\/p>\n
\u2018The future is more close\u2019<\/h2>\nElisa Balsamo won four stages at the Giro and is one of Carera\u2019s athletes. <\/span> (Photo: Luc Claessen\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
Women\u2019s cycling has been the subject of massive change in recent years. Increased professionalism has brought about a jump in salaries, as well as a much broader spread of talent across teams. Forget the past where one or two super teams dominated this part of the sport; now there is much more parity between squads, as well as a higher number of athletes being properly paid for their efforts.<\/p>\n
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Races have also changed: Tour de France organizers ASO finally gave into a long campaign to provide a women\u2019s version of the race, with the Tour de France Femmes originating out of the one day La Course event and now extending to nine days.<\/p>\n
The Giro d\u2019Italia Women and La Vuelta Femenina are also bigger than before, while races such as Paris-Roubaix, Milan-San Remo and more have highly regarded women\u2019s equivalents.<\/p>\n
Carera sees this approach as being helpful in growing the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that five years ago there were not many opportunities for women\u2019s cycling to have exposure,\u201d he said, speaking to Eurosport. \u201cBut now there is the combination between men\u2019s races and women\u2019s races together. I remember the first time it was Fl\u00e8che Wallonne. I think it gives a great opportunity to women\u2019s cycling. Then I am sure in the future that the men\u2019s cycling and women\u2019s cycling are more close.\u201d<\/p>\n
How to grow things further<\/h2>\nDemi Vollering (C) won the overall at the Giro d\u2019Italia Women, and is likely the highest earner in women\u2019s cycling (Photo: Marco Bertorello \/ AFP)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The women\u2019s Giro ended in dramatic fashion on Sunday with Demi Vollering swooping to snatch the pink jersey from the shoulders of Anna van der Breggen, her former coach.<\/p>\n
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Vollering signed what was reportedly the highest contract in women\u2019s cycling when she signed with FDJ-Suez, earning a rumored one million euro a year. She\u2019s also got a personal contract with Nike, further boosting her earnings. When asked what women\u2019s cycling needed to keep growing, Carera pointed to this kind of sponsorship as being helpful.<\/p>\n
He could see clear financial benefits for the rider concerned, but also another benefit to that wider exposure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to give the opportunity to give to the athletes more vision, more opportunity,\u201d he said. \u201cAlso out of the races, not only in the races.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd also we need to create some other advertising. For example, if there is one athlete who promotes also her shoes, his helmets with their name, it is a great advertising for women\u2019s cycling.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause in the end every day you can see many, many women start to go on the bike. They are following more the women\u2019s cycling. Then we need to create more connection between the fans and the athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/9Z4A0223.jpg”] Shane Stokes Published June 7, 2026 01:23PM He\u2019s most famed as the agent of Tadej Poga\u010dar but Alex Carera can see a time when there is much greater equality of opportunity between men and women cyclists. That\u2019s his clear message upon attending the Giro d\u2019Italia Women in recent days, with Carera witnessing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-1977964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1977964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1977964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1977964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1977964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1977964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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