Originally Posted by
vane171
This has to do with the bicycle sport as such in the respective countries. If you look at the history of the sport, in movie documentaries, magazines, newspaper coverage of races, Germany simply doesn't figure.
“Bicycle sport as such” includes UCI sanctioned Artistic Cycling, which German men and women have absolutely owned since the 1960s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCI_In..._Championships
Viola Brand, the reigning EU singles champ, has been blowing up on social media the past couple of years, too, and is legit celebrity enough to have been on the Ellen show!