Maelochs

I found that hard to beleive so i checked 100-meter dash.

"What is the American high school record for the 100 meter dash? What is the Record high school 100 yard dash"

According to TrackandField.com, the American high school record in the 100 meter dash is held by J-Mee Samuels of Mt. Tabor HighSchool in Winston Salem, NC, at a time of 10.08 seconds run on July24, 2005. Jeff Demps ran the 100 meter dash in 10.01 seconds at the U.S. Olympic team trials on July 6, 2008.

Florence Griffith Joyner, representing the United States, set the women's 100m world record of 10.49 seconds on July 16, 1988. https://www.bing.com/search?q=womens+100+meter+dash+record&PC=U316&FORM=CHROMN

Amazing.

gpsblake

A continental team could probably put on a woman but the team goal would be to support her finishing in the allotted time, not to actually win races. She would have to stay near the end of the peloton and on mountain stages, just ride with the autobus

But the amount of exposure a continental team would receive would be enormous. It would be a stunt.

I would love to see a real grand tour for women. Maybe have them start a short period after the men. However, sponsorship and logistics are a huge expense and teams are already short on cash.

Maelochs

One way to do it would be to calculate the pace and start the women before the men, hoping that the two groups came together at the finish. Wouldn't work for sprint stages obviously ... but for climbs it would be pretty cool.

McBTC

Women have a natural advantage when it comes to competing against men in endurance events involving dealing with the cold... e.g., English Channel Swimming, the Iditarod and perhaps holding breath underwater at a cold depth but, in elite endurance events, generally -- like the Tour -- the Female Athlete Triad, is a syndrome that's set in motion by relatively lower energy availability and becomes a health issue.

gpsblake

It would create potential chaos on top of mountain stages if both were together. The tour is already crowded with support vehicles and media. Adding a women's race at the same time as the men's race would create chaos with traffic.

Maybe a solution would be a women's race maybe with 5 woman teams, starting just around the halfway line of the men right after the autobus passes by. With the men's races being so short, they could take time away and focus on the gals a little bit. Of course, the sponsors of the men's teams would be very upset about losing camera time.

I wish there was a solution to make things better for women in professional cycling. I really do.

Colnago Mixte

Another advantage women pro cyclists have, is that they can train with the fastest men, and increase their own speed by training with much faster and more skilled riders. Men that they will never compete with head to head.

Imagine if there was some non-human species that male cyclists could train with, say Sasquaches or something, who were 10-15% faster than they were and had quicker reflexes, but humans did not have to beat them, they could just train with them to get faster. That would seem to be a nice carrot to dangle in front of someone wanting to go faster, might even work.

smoore

Is this a troll? I WAS a fan too...until they really discovered what was in that bottle. And in her hotel room.

Voronoi

Sadly there is not really big media coverage of women cycling events. At the same time also no real big sponsors are entering the female pro cycling market. Hopefully that will change in the future!