When Frankie Hall received her first professional contract offer this February, she thought there was a mistake. “This stuff doesn’t happen to me,” she told herself. At 30 years old, she had heard again and again that she was too old to make it in cycling, and with little experience of top-tier racing, no team had been willing to take a gamble on her.
Her options, she figured, had run out. Then came the message: how did she fancy a two-year deal with a French ProTeam? “I thought it must be a typo,” she says. “Or maybe [the team manager] didn’t mean to message me.”
