The Women's Tour: 8 days while waiting for something better

The Dutchwoman Demi Vollering, crowned last weekend at Landerneau on the day of the start of the Tour de France, will be the last to win La Course by Le Tour, the women's event organized on the sidelines of the Grande Boucle since 2014. The pressure was on. too strong.

So much because of the growing interest in women's cycling - especially in the Netherlands, land of exceptional champions, such as Annemiek Van Vleuten, Anna Van der Breggen or Marianne Vos, and in the United Kingdom, where athletes like Lizzie Deignan are as popular as male riders - and the need for parity too indisputable for Amaury Sport Organization (ASO) to persist in its reluctance to organize a women's Tour.

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• The general classification of the Tour de France

This should have already been the case in 2021, without the Covid-19 pandemic.

This will be done in 2022, with the Tour de France Women, the fourth attempt to offer women's cycling the showcase of a major event.

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