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The first women’s Tour de France ran in 1955 – and then vanished. Stephanie Boland charts the long, winding road to its modern revival

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Recreational and competitive cycling are enjoying huge popularity worldwide, and this has rubbed off on the women’s side of the sport. From road races to mountain biking and everything in between, mor

When Marion Rousse stood up to speak at the UCI’s headquarters in Aigle at the start of June, it was a landmark moment. The director of the women’s Tour de France, or the ‘Femmes’, was revealing new s

Frenchwoman earns dream win on debut, reports Tom Davidson in Châtel

In the closing years of the last millennium, Vuelta a España director Enrique Franco was searching for a spectacle to help his race compete with its more famous French and Italian rivals. He believed