Froome makes a comeback……
There would actually be some interesting riders in this.
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Nah, Eddy Merckx would come out of retirement and beat them all 
She has ended up with a four month prison sentence, suspended.
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2022 course announced. Despite saying there would be a women’s race, its some watered down 8 stage bag of shit.
Cycling really is in the 50s still.
Wowsers
Hopefully for them there’s more support roadside than the Women’s ToB, last week there were possibly 20 people in a 2km hilly stretch of the TT on a great day weather-wise.
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Still a huge step up from what had been happening
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… Big crowd came out for women’s tour when they were coming up Newnham Hill, I think that was 2016. They were coming down from Preston Capes, the opposite way in which I usually run up, when at my mum and dad’s
Noticeably more people head out that way now on their bikes. Nice part of Northants. Everything their side of the A5 is really nice and you can head off to Buckinghamshire too ( via Stowe school direction etc )
If she was driving a car she’d have got off scott free 
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It’s still in the 70s - it has advanced a bit.
I’m guessing the intention is to have the same infrastructure ie. Start/finish villages, publicity caravan etc etc. Hard work for the teams working on it all, 4 weeks road trip now instead of 3 but I hope it does draw some more crowds. Restricting it to starting when the men finish means that the route is unlikely to include the Pyrenees in the future and it may get a bit same-y after a few years 
Did you really expect a full three week women’s tour? Even if that was a good idea (if you invented men’s Pro cycling now would you have three week stage races? Probably not) women’s Pro cycling is not yet at a position where it would be tenable, the strength in depth just isn’t there.
IMHO a good competitive 1 week stage race will do more to progress women’s Pro cycling at this moment than a 3 week race that would probably be over as a contest after a week.
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A few of my lot are touting a potential ride from ours to Newhaven, ferry to Dieppe. Catch the Tour passing in that region, ansd then head home.
Very tempting!
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Even the men’s races are over within 10days most years. Some of the shorter punchy stuff is much better, Tour of Britain for example has some fantastic racing.
ASO have tried a women’s race a few times and their argument, previously has been that no one wanted to watch it. Couldn’t sell it to TV so no sponsors want to get involved. Now that there is probably more of an audience, it is a lot easier to put a race on.
Bit of catch 22, they have less exposure so less chance of being seen by the general public resulting in less exposure
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Why so?
The Tour alternates directions every year, so one year the Alps come at the end and the next year the Pyrenees.
Was about to say the same thing, you cant watch what doesnt exist
Distance. Stage 1 in Paris and by day 8 in the Pyrenees? It’ll be done at some point but the riders won’t like - that’s some pretty hefty bus transfers as women don’t do the 250km snooze-fest “transfer” stages.
Paris-Nice doesn’t actually start in Paris. It starts outside paris and that always has one or two long transfer days.
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BBC News - Woman fined €1,200 for causing Tour de France pile-up
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I thought she was already jailed?
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