Which quotes and statistics from chapter 4 of Wheels of Change most develop the central idea that women bicycle racers were very competitive with each other? Check all that apply
When an assistant arrived she was wide awake, and laughing to herself to think what a figure she must have cut as over the fence she flew,” reported the St. Paul Daily Globe.
Many sustained injuries—at a race in 1881, five of the six female competitors had previously suffered at least one broken arm—but they kept coming back.
Even so, she "rode like a wild woman for at least an hour and a half" on night five, finally tiring and falling to fourth place.
More than 7,000 people watched the night Frankie Nelson set her 18-hour record in Minneapolis, and a good number of those in the stands were female.
"Bitter rivalry, that characteristic feminine trait, and the determination to 'get even' are seemingly the actuating motives," wrote the Times.