Marianne Vos: I'm like a kid waiting for her birthday, I'm so excited about La Course by Le Tour TODAY

@YorkshireWhippet, it's a stage payment, and the final stage of the tour is traditionally considerably less taxing than the others.

My point was that, for the sake of less than the cost of the bunting, they could have made the purse the same as for the final stage and had equality of opportunity for that stage. And made a statement of intent by doing so.

The women's tour of Britain is far ahead of what's proposed for La Course. As others have said, it's not that the women want shorter races.

Nixster wrote:

@YorkshireWhippet, it's a stage payment, and the final stage of the tour is traditionally considerably less taxing than the others.

My point was that, for the sake of less than the cost of the bunting, they could have made the purse the same as for the final stage and had equality of opportunity for that stage. And made a statement of intent by doing so.

The women's tour of Britain is far ahead of what's proposed for La Course. As others have said, it's not that the women want shorter races.

It's a stage payment eer what? La Course was not part of a womens multi stage event, it was a on the day event. La Course did not follow the same route as the mens, i.e. the lead into Paris before hitting the Champs. The women had not been competing for nearly three weeks beforehand. There is no way you can compare la Course with le Tour they are two completely different animals.

Let's look at it another way. Why don't you go away and look at the massive leap forward that was taken this year, instead of the negativity of what's missing.
For the first time ever,
1. women raced on the Champs.
2. on the same ay as the men
3. on the same day as the last stage of the biggest annaul sporting event in the world
4. got tv coverage, that was live during the day.
5. showed the world that female racing is as good or better than mens.

Ultimately, you still have not justified calling Prudhome a sexist. He's done more for women racing this year than the last 100 years of le Tour.

Yorkshie Whippet wrote:

Let's look at it another way. Why don't you go away and look at the massive leap forward that was taken this year, instead of the negativity of what's missing.
For the first time ever,
1. women raced on the Champs.
2. on the same ay as the men
3. on the same day as the last stage of the biggest annaul sporting event in the world
4. got tv coverage, that was live during the day.
5. showed the world that female racing is as good or better than mens.

Ultimately, you still have not justified calling Prudhome a sexist. He's done more for women racing this year than the last 100 years of le Tour.

Not to be nitpicky, although I will, it's not actually the first time ever that women raced on the Champs, on the same day as the men, etc. The original Tour de France Féminin that was replaced multiple times by shorter races, axed, etc finished on the Champs when it was first held in 1984 up until, I think, 1988. It also covered some of the route before the men came through, approx 700 miles. 1984 Maillot Jaune winner Marianne Martin stood on the podium in Paris alongside Laurent Fignon with Maria Canins doing the same alongside Bernard Hinault the following year.

Of course, there was no live coverage and few were probably aware of it happening apart from those who lined the TdF routes that the women were also using an hour or so before, so that's the major difference between then and La Course now. It's probably a leap forward in terms of where women's cycling is now particularly in trying to encourage a worldwide audience (therefore, encouraging sponsors for women's races), but certainly not much when considering where it could be or has been before.

Yorkshie Whippet wrote:

Nixster wrote:

@YorkshireWhippet, it's a stage payment, and the final stage of the tour is traditionally considerably less taxing than the others.

My point was that, for the sake of less than the cost of the bunting, they could have made the purse the same as for the final stage and had equality of opportunity for that stage. And made a statement of intent by doing so.

The women's tour of Britain is far ahead of what's proposed for La Course. As others have said, it's not that the women want shorter races.

It's a stage payment eer what? La Course was not part of a womens multi stage event, it was a on the day event. La Course did not follow the same route as the mens, i.e. the lead into Paris before hitting the Champs. The women had not been competing for nearly three weeks beforehand. There is no way you can compare la Course with le Tour they are two completely different animals.

Let's look at it another way. Why don't you go away and look at the massive leap forward that was taken this year, instead of the negativity of what's missing.
For the first time ever,
1. women raced on the Champs.
2. on the same ay as the men
3. on the same day as the last stage of the biggest annaul sporting event in the world
4. got tv coverage, that was live during the day.
5. showed the world that female racing is as good or better than mens.

Ultimately, you still have not justified calling Prudhome a sexist. He's done more for women racing this year than the last 100 years of le Tour.

WRONG WRONG WRONG.....It is not a step forward at all. It is a step up towards what used to be.

Women have races on the Champs before, on the same day as the men, on the same day as a last stage and is showed the world that female racing was on an equal standing as the men, hence they even shared a podium.