Stefy Bau

Former Motocross World Champ turned Entrepeneur. Managing director of @init_esports and @Init_Sports Girls rocks! Always smiling!

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Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo were two of history's greatest travelers, but their journeys differed in scale and purpose...

Marco Polo traveled from Venice to China in the late 13th Century and spent years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account introduced many Europeans to the riches and cultures of Asia and helped shape Europe's view of the East for centuries.

Ibn Battuta, born about 50 years later, traveled much farther. Beginning with a pilgrimage to Mecca, he spent nearly 30 years journeying across North Africa, the Middle East, East Africa, Central Asia, India, Southeast Asia, and China. Historians estimate he covered about 120,000 km (75,000 miles), compared with roughly 24,000 km (15,000 miles) for Marco Polo.

Ibn Battuta is often considered the greatest explorer of the pre-modern world. Beginning at age 21, he spent nearly three decades traveling across a vast region stretching from West Africa to China, covering an estimated 120,000 kilometers (75,000 miles) at a time when all long-distance travel depended on walking, horses, camels, ships powered by wind, and riverboats.

He crossed the Sahara Desert, sailed the Indian Ocean, visited the courts of powerful rulers in India and China, and traveled through territories that today span more than 40 countries. No traveler known to history journeyed farther before the age of steamships and railways.

His account, The Rihla, provides an extraordinary snapshot of the interconnected world of the 14th century, revealing how trade routes, Islamic scholarship, and maritime networks linked societies across Africa, Asia, and Europe centuries before modern transportation.

While Marco Polo is often better known in the West, Ibn Battuta visited more places, traveled about five times farther, and left behind one of the most detailed descriptions of the medieval world.

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@SophiaFloersch It has nothing to do with performance or segregation. With a base, when one wants to step up, there is an ocean of other women supporting her which then will build up the confidence to follow through on that step.

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@SophiaFloersch it continues to be hard to create a pathway. Having its own series helps create a sense of belonging and so a stepping stone to compete with the best in the world (male or female). It’s all about creating an healthy base that we desperately need.

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@SophiaFloersch Let me offer a different view. We don’t have enough girls participating in motorsports and sim racing and you are aware of all the reasons why. If we don’t create a base of a lot of women feeling comfortable to race without the bullying factor that we experience in racing

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@kellenbrauer I know something… 😉

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Of course I challenged all the girl gamers in the room to become the next F1 Female driver ❤️

I love what I do!

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Today was magical!!

Speaking in front of so many girls at the Lioness festival during Georgia Games Week was so soul filling.

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@AdamCianciarulo @kellenbrauer Let’s go! We’ll get you to come to EICMA in Milan this November to race on MXBikes 🙌🏽

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Heading to GDC @Official_GDC
Reach out if you want to meet and chat about sim racing, STEM and women in esports
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@SMankuta Go Sari! Tell it how it is 💪🏽

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@HaasF1TeamBoss 😂😂 Always funny!!

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The inaugural EICMA ESPORTS MX Championship by @init_esports will take motocross sim competition to the EICMA show in Milan for an in-person final. https://t.co/HouII2nqhE

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Screen to Speed Summer Cup Round 4 live now on https://t.co/2A28QNAvff
Come watch the best female sim racing from around the world battle for the win!

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