Opinion: The Tour de France Femmes begins on historic day we’ve waited a long time for
Thirty-three years is a long time without a women’s edition of the Tour de France. It is so long, in fact, that although officially Sunday's run around Paris marked a resumption, a continuation of sorts, it was rightly treated as something entirely new. Ad/> It’s almost certainly true that none of the 144 riders who took the start of the Tour de France Femmes remember Dutch star Monique Knol’s sprint victory in 1989 across, give or take a few hundred metres, the same finish line as Lorena Wiebes.
