A luxury women’s Tour with the best cyclists starts today in Paris

Just before the 109th edition of the Tour de France the curtain falls, the best runners in the world will begin to star in the most beautiful scenarios, on the most mediatic screens, the Women’s Tour de France. The realization of the women’s gala round confirms the good moment that women’s cycling is going through, on an occasion that, as the great Dutch champion told MD Anna van der Breggenwas supposed to be “a turning point for women’s cycling”.

The race stars 24 cycling teams, each consisting of six runners, who must exert themselves on a difficult and difficult route, of more than a thousand kilometers divided into eight stages for different profiles of cyclists found. the peloton, a tour blessed by Marion Rousse, former professional cyclist and new test director. The strategy of the stages will go from less to more, and after a difficult but not too demanding start, the profile of the days will increase in difficulty. As a whole, the company organization DOG, similar to the Men’s Tour, has designed eight stages, four of which are mountains and one of them, the last one, which is in the final fireworks, with a high finish in La Planche des Belles Filles. Two days less than ten of Italy is spinning which was run at the end of July, and which brilliantly won the Movistar rider Annemiek Van Vleutenand three more than La Vuelta’s Ceratizit Challenge, which will be held this year from September 7 to 11.

An elite itinerary that Van Vleuten himself described as “tough and beautiful. DOG he took us seriously when he designed the course, I like the length of the stages. I was expecting some famous climbs and the organizers have delivered. Some have said that the route does not reach the three weeks of the Men’s Tour, but we have all the ingredients to make it look like a great race”, he commented.

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A ‘recovered’ women’s Tour de France that will lead to the cream of the international peloton. With the Dutch Annemiek van Vleuten highlights the presence of Italian Martha Cavalli, second in the Giro after Movistar member and winner of this year’s women’s Flecha Wallona and the ‘classic’ Mont Ventoux mountain; your countryman Elisa Longo Borghini, winner of Paris-Roubaix and the British Tour; the dutch Marianne Vosno luck this year but with a whopping 240 victories behind him, the Polish Katarzyna Niewiadomathe Belgian Lotte Kopecky or the Dutch Demi Vollering too. A list of stars where the Spaniards stand out Sandra Alonso (Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling), Ane Santesteban (BikeExchange) and Spain’s recent double champion mavi garcia. The Balearic UAE Team ADQ arrives at the Tour after putting together a great performance at the Giro Donne, where he was the star and where he finished third.

The prize, apart from the sporting glory, will be 250,000 euros in total to be distributed over the stages and the 50,000 to be taken by the winner. Let the show.