The cyclist who finished third in a women’s world championship race won by a biological man says she is working to change the rules.
“For those of you who think I have ‘folded’ I have not,” Bronze medalist Jennifer Wagner-Assali wrote in a Tweet Thursday. “There’s a group of us working on getting the rules changed but we are going to fight it offline, not in the name-calling angry world of social media. I’m choosing to move on in a positive way.”
Wagner-Assali finished third Sunday in the 35-44 female age bracket at the UCI Masters track cycling championships in Los Angeles. Rachel McKinnon, a transgender woman who was born a man, won the race.
Wagner-Assali tweeted on Sunday that the race was “NOT fair” and that “just because it’s a CURRENT UCI rule doesn’t make it fair or right. And rules can be changed.”
On Thursday, she expressed regret with what she had said, but not on her position on the issue.
“After having some time to reflect, I realize my twitter comments earlier this week unintentionally fanned the flames on a controversial situation, and that I regret,” she wrote. “I made the comments out of a feeling of frustration, but they weren’t productive or positive.
“They were just inflammatory, and that’s not who I want to be or am,” Wagner-Assali added. “While I may not agree…
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