La Txell has been riding a bike all her life, but it wasn’t until she went through a difficult time in her life that she didn’t see it as an option. “My contract ended in a job that was very important to me and I found myself at a point in my life where I had finished studying CAFE. I was very sad and I talked to my mother. She told me she reassured me, she told me that she was very proud of me and that I should do what I liked. At that moment, I was very blocked and all I could say to her was: “I like to ride a bike”. She he told me that now that I was unemployed I had to make the most of the time to do what I liked,” he explains to the ARA.
His family has been key, not only for this turn in his life, but since its beginnings. “They have always been where I have been, they have always supported me in everything I have done. They have been the basis of making me who I am. They have been guiding me and have never forbidden me anything. They are the people what else do I care,” she reflects, a little excited. He ran triathlons with his father since he was little and now he and his mother are his number 1 fans in all races.
Networks and women’s sport
Txell has been part of the Buff-Megamo Team for two years. “Both in terms of my sports life and my professional life, I’m growing. I’m in a super team, and I’m also combining personal training with the pool and some classes as a CAFE teacher,” she explains Fig trees The team, professional, has both women and men in its ranks. “When I look at the teams around the world, there are always boys. As for girls, there are either less or none. It is true that there are fewer girls competing, but we have had a lot more barriers.” report
She, aware that she is privileged looking at her fellow professionals, claims that women must be much more persistent to reach the same jobs. “Women have to be more stubborn than men. My partner [Dani Oliveras, copilot al Dakar] he also had to face it, eh, but when it comes to sport, men have much more facilities.”
Social networks, a showcase for brands and for the athletes themselves, are a double-edged sword. “I depend more on social networks than him. Dani, because of his work, maybe he shouldn’t have to echo himself, but for me it’s always something that is looked at. That a girl has more followers helps that doors can be opened for you in terms of brands,” he says. You need to have some numbers in hand that justify the investment, prove that the products and brands you show through the platforms will actually reach followers and fans. “They need to see that you, apart from being an athlete, do work and that you take care of them,” she adds.
