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The first edition of the Tour de France fan will start in Paris as the men's Tour de France

comes to a close and although there have been some pretenders to the crown, this is the first

Tour de France for women since. The original Tour Femme an Anne which ran in the 1980s,

lots of people perhaps mistakenly think that this is the first Tour de France for women riders,

but the Tour Femme an Anne which ran from 1984 to 1989 ran at the same time as the Tour de France.

And it also provided the inspiration for our women's show, the Cycling Podcast Femme an Anne,

when Richard Moore and I were talking about how to establish the show and trying to come up with

a name. Richard just said why don't we call it the Cycling Podcast Femme an Anne and it just

immediately felt like the right idea. But Lizzy Banks of course, what do you know about the Tour Femme

an Anne, the original race in the 1980s? So the original race was very different from the kind of

race we're going to see today either in the Tour de France fan or in the men's Tour de France.

It was 18 stages over 21 days and the support was nothing like what you see today with catering

trucks and chefs. These riders barely even had a DS. Some didn't have a mechanic until halfway

through the race and even 10 years later at the Tour de lode, it was the same for riders then.

So things have changed so much with equipment, with parkour, with support out on the road.

And so it's going to be a very, very different race and a very, very different depth of field

that we see in the Tour de France fan starting again this year to what we saw in 1984.

I mean, they are so, the organisers of the Tour de France get a lot of criticism for

the speed at which they have come to develop a Tour de France woman rider. I'm rightly so,

but the predecessors in the organisation were trailblazers in a sense in 1984,

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