Empathy is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else´s position in order to comprehend or feel what that other person is experiencing, from that person´s perspective. Empathy covers a wide range of emotional states that go from cognition, emotion, to even corporeal or somatic feelings or sensations.
The central idea refers to the number of existing women to see the show, which outnumbered the number of men. Despite the fact that cycling is not considered a sport for women, attendance at the show suggests the great number of followers that this sport had in itself.