Nothing stopping women becoming a tour de force in their own right
(The Guardian Sports News)

La Course, which had such a spectacular finish on Friday, will play a vital role in the advancement of women´s cyclingA potentially game-changing development for the whole of cycling was almost lost on Friday afternoon not long after Marianne Vos scored a crushing and spectacular victory in La Course, the one-day women´s race run alongside the Tour de France. The Tour organisers, Amaury Sport Organisation, Reuters reported, intend to set up a women´s stage race that will be the equivalent to its flagship event and have set up a group dedicated to developing women´s cycling.`Women cyclists need a race which is to them what the Tour de France is to the men and we need to find a solution for that,` an ASO official said when asked for more detail by the Observer. The group will begin work in September - once French holidays are out of the way in August - and it will initially be `in a reflective state` and there will be no pre-determined schedule. `We will have to move fast and we will have to do it well,` the source added. Continue reading...