2023-07-21 23:17:02
After commenting on the Tour for three weeks, the director of the Tour de France women with Zwift is back on the road, from Sunday.
LE FIGARO. – What lessons have you learned from the 2022 edition?
Marion Rousse. – Our challenge was to show that it was a real Tour de France, not a cheap Tour de France. People immediately joined. In fact, it’s a fourth week of the Tour. At the Palais des Congrès, during the presentation of the courses, many people said: “We’re going to look at the men’s and women’s map, so we’re going to have four weeks of vacation, we’ll see where we stand with the motorhomes», and that is the cycling spirit. For the first edition of the Women’s Tour, I was not very worried sportingly speaking, I knew that we would have a great show. The question was to know if there would be people at the edge of the roads and if the public would be present in front of the TV. It worked really well, people adopted us. But we remain cautious, women’s Tours de France, there have already been some in the past, and it has stopped. We want to perpetuate the event and be…
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