{"id":67742,"date":"2024-08-12T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/de26c580-f13b-4127-a671-467903d4a4ce"},"modified":"2024-08-12T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T16:25:24","slug":"why-are-women-outnumbered-in-mountain-biking-and-what-can-be-done-to-increase-participation-bikeradar-podcast","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/cyclingplus\/rss_feed\/why-are-women-outnumbered-in-mountain-biking-and-what-can-be-done-to-increase-participation-bikeradar-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are women outnumbered in mountain biking and what can be done to increase participation? | BikeRadar Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\">Tom Marvin, Rachel Bennet and Dr Fiona Spotswood shine a light on female participation in mountain biking <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By <\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Monday, 12 August 2024 at 16:00 PM<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Why are women outnumbered in mountain biking and what can be done to increase participation?\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"autoplay; 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