Tour de France Femmes: Cycling wishes for preliminary spark in Paris
Christian Prudhomme as well as Marion Rousse. Imago Images/Panoramic International Brennauer: Naturally, this race is also something like a yardstick Bora-Hansgrohe employer Denk: Ultimately we consider the media information It is not the initial effort to develop a tour de france of women. The previous variation was held from 1984 to 2009. At that time there was currently a start-up help from the Tour company ASO, which arranged the race in parallel to the tour. Yet the company took out after 5 years. Slowly, the tour lost significance under other names. Last year there was already a mini-comeback as a one-day race as component of the tour. The visibility of women's cycling on television has enhanced in current years, the groups are extra professional. The Tour de France Femmes must be the following big throw. The media can go along with the race much better, said tour director Christian Prudhomme. His counterpart of the Tour de France Femmes, Marion Rousse, also emphasizes the...