Tour de France Femmes

2022 - 7 - 23

tour de france femmes 2022

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Tour de France Femmes stage 1: Live (Cyclingnews.com)

-Stage 1 of the Tour de France Femmes runs from Paris Tour Eiffel to Paris Champs-Élysées over a flat 81 kilometre course. - The opening stage marks the return ...

Two minutes to go. 65 kilometres to go 62 kilometres to go 60 kilometres to go -Stage 1 of the Tour de France Femmes runs from Paris Tour Eiffel to Paris Champs-Élysées over a flat 81 kilometre course. 58 kilometres to go

Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift - Factor Bikes (Factor Bikes)

This is not a token event to entertain the crowd while they wait for the men's peloton to arrive. It's a full-on, eight-day event that will cover everything ...

Femke Markus has been with the team since 2019 and has already added two victories to her palmarès this year, including an impressive win at the Leiedal Koerse where she won in a three-up sprint. Factor-sponsored Team Parkhotel Valkenburg has a strong group of established and up-and-coming riders, who have the right mix of qualities to be aggressive in every stage. Starting in Paris on the final day of the men’s Tour, it traces its way 1033 kilometers through northeastern France arriving on the final day for a dramatic finish at the top of the Super Planche des Belles Filles.

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I feel extremely excited to race in this first edition of the Tour de France Femmes. It is an honor to be able to participate in something that so many have fought so hard for. It’s a strange feeling to be so close to the start of the Tour de France Femmes and I think it will only feel real when we get to Sunday, that’s when it will all click. I am really looking forward to the start of the Tour de France Femmes, I’m excited for the wait to be over. Of course, I also dream about a stage win, but first and foremost, I will be working for the team. I think it’s super cool that our team has a really strong team for the race, we have new kit, new bikes and everything is special for this race just like the race itself. It’s going to be even more special for me because I will be the rainbow jersey in the first edition of this new Tour de France Femmes so it’s amazing for me and I am also very happy about this. It’s not necessarily been one of my biggest goals of the season, it’s a bit of a shame for me that there’s no time trial, but there are a lot of nice other stages and opportunities so, it will be fun. I am very excited for the Tour de France Femmes and I really want to enjoy every moment of it from the first stage to the last one. I felt a little bit off after Nationals, but Baloise Ladies Tour showed me that my strength and shape is back and that’s why I am looking forward to the race. I am definitely looking forward to this race because I think it’s going to be a great celebration of women’s cycling. The inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be eight days, and the Champs-Élysées will be the first stage to kick it off rather than being another one-day edition of La Course, a race offered to the women for the past eight years. It’s really special and I feel privileged to be part of this race.

Results and Highlights From the 2022 Tour de France Femmes (Bicycling)

Stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights from this year's race.

"I was quite relaxed before the start. We did everything as normal, we saw it as a normal race but of course I was quite nervous towards the end." "The team did an amazing job," said Wiebes. "It was a really chaotic and long sprint."

Lorena Wiebes pips Marianne Vos to win first stage of Tour de ... (The Guardian)

Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands lived up to expectations as she won the opening stage of the women's Tour de France.

It was a very long sprint but I was expecting it as I was getting ready for Marianne Vos to go early,” said Wiebe. We’ve had a great season so far. “It’s incredible, the girls worked tirelessly for me.

The Tour de France finally features women again — after 33 years (The Washington Post)

The 640-mile stage race features two mountain stages and ends in the Vosges Mountains. In the 119-year existence of the men's tour, women have competed in the ...

If they see women in sport, and it’s exciting, they’re going to see that as an option.” You have a wide variety of women who could be winning the race.” Zwift is funding a total prize purse for the women’s race of 250,000 euros, with 50,000 going to the winner. For now, that means eight stages instead of the 21 stages that men ride. Race organizers say the goal is to grow women’s cycling to the point where full parity is possible, but they are starting with what is most sustainable first. The men’s prize purse is 2.3 million euros, with 500,000 going to the winner. “The best of the best are making good money these days, but for most pro women, it’s still squeaking by and a challenging career choice. “They know everything they do is going to impact the opportunities that come after them.” “Women’s sports is trending hard because the companies that have invested in sports are seeing fabulous returns,” Veronneau said. Williams said her mom, speed skating Olympian Sarah Docter, was a pro-cyclist in the 1980s who never had the chance to ride the Tour. “She got burned out really early,” Williams said. “It’s been huge to have that time to rest and recover. “For little girls growing up and seeing themselves in a variety of sports … that’s powerful.”

Tour de France Femmes: Marianne Vos is second-fastest on ... (VeloNews)

The Dutchwoman was pipped at the line by Lorena Wiebes during the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes.

The fact that I came so close gives me a good feeling.” In 2014, Vos was one of three cyclists to pen a petition to Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, demanding that women be allowed to race. Although the finish was bittersweet, Vos still made time to enjoy the historic day.