Watching the final rider cross the finish line atop La Super Planche des Belles Filles the next day, powering up the eye-wateringly savage gradients, I thought about it again. There are still some in cycling with such attitudes towards women’s racing, and his words highlighted to me exactly how much we needed the return of a women’s Tour de France.Īs I watched Annemiek van Vleuten and Demi Vollering battle it out on the slopes of the Petit Ballon to the roars of an excited French public on the race’s penultimate stage, I thought about the words of that man on the first day of the Tour Femmes. The man’s sentence stuck with me, it angered me, of course, but looking back now, I’m grateful for it. I was taken aback by his attitudes towards the race and his lack of understanding about the quality of women’s cycling. It was here that the exchange came to a rather abrupt end. “You’ll see girls walking up the climbs.” “But you wait until the final two stages,” he said.
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