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18-12.-2004, 07:16 AM
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Re: Girls?
Reading the TDF regulations, I can find nothing that says that women are not allowed in the race.
Suffice it to say that there is a lot of money tied up in how well teams perform in July. If there was a woman who could win the TDF she would added to a team. |
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18-12.-2004, 10:55 AM
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Re: Girls?
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Copying and pasting my own post since most of you seem not to have seen it. A woman HAS entered a man's race. I think the UCI won't allow a woman to enter a race designated as UCI Pro event, but since the "open" designation allows amateurs as well as pros, they decided she could enter it. She was the women's world road champion and got 57th in a race graded 1.5 (easiest). Hypothetically, a woman could take out a men's pro license and get hired by a men's pro trade team and be entered in a Pro Tour race - and that would be a wonderful thing to see, but pro distances and tactics have evolved into things that men will always be better at. Mountain time trials may well be an exception, but there aren't many of those around. |
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11-01.-2005, 09:00 AM
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Re: Girls?
Jeanie Longo competed against the men in the US and won...
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22-01.-2005, 04:23 PM
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Re: Girls?
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whats the % on the hill ur talking about? just curious |
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23-01.-2005, 10:42 AM
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Re: Girls?
The hill that I was talking about is about 8-12% for the first part and then it levels off to about 5% and then it goes back to 8% for the rest of the way and then slowly levels off to normal.
My average speed up the hill is actually about 15.5-16 MPH Its fun to go back down the hill because the speed limit is 35 MPH and I was doing about 36 MPH. 
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24-01.-2005, 05:26 AM
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Re: Girls?
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There is also a female version of the Giro d' Italia, and there is a decent following (a actually sponsorship money) here in the old country. A number of sponsors have worked almost exclusively with women (Fanini is one of the better known here in Italy). Just google the stuff - there are a number of Eastern and Northern European women (especialy) that have been recruited and race in Italy.
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01-02.-2005, 05:38 AM
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Re: Girls?
As regards whether women are as good at any sport as men, there are always prodigies, there may be a woman who could beat all comers to the cycling throne right now, but another year there will be a man.
I suppose in todays world of cycling, what reallymatters is, which physiology responds better to steroids, EPO and insulin. Then you might have an answer as to who are the "better" cyclists. |
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