Women s Tour de France: Is ASO backing or slacking?
The 2022 Women’s Tour de France is officially on, but will it be the race the women’s peloton deserve?
The much-fêted revival of a women’s Tour de France seemed to be one more (barely-perceptible) baby-step closer to reality this week after race director Christian Prudhomme confirmed to The Guardian that: “It will take place next year, that’s certain.”
That the event will take place was just about the only information that Prudhomme gave away about the race itself. The Frenchman took a nebulous line, coming out with vague promises such as, “I can tell you there will be links with the past, with the present, and perhaps the future”, which sounds more like a dodgy palm-reading than a proposal for a stage race.
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Mathieu van der Poel won the most recent Amstel Gold Race, which was held in 2019 Photo: Getty Images
Time waits for no man or woman, and neither does the cycling calendar. Now that the cobbled classics have been dispatched with, the caravan moves onto the Ardennes, Spain, and Turkey.
Here’s your insider’s guide for the races going on for the week of Monday, April 12 through Sunday, April 18.
Tour of Turkey
Monday, April 12 – Sunday, April 18
What to know: The Tour of Turkey returns to the cycling calendar after it was forced to cancel last year’s event due to COVID-19 restrictions. Largely geared towards the fast men in the peloton, there are only a few chances for the overall contenders to make a difference.