'Scuse me, but in the twenty years that women have finally been allowed to play sports our times and performances have exploded across the gender gap. As more women participate in coming generations and the pool of talent grows who knows what will happen? Women are taller and stronger, at least in the USA, than at any time in history. If the next generation of female athletes aren't crippled by eating disorders destroying muscle mass, amazing things could happen. I know a local veterinarian who can sit at 30mph for 120 miles, and she doesn't race. She just does that on the weekends. Women are known to do better in endurance events because of our body fat and metabolism of same. Female marathon runners are schooching up there.
Le Tour is big business. Teams with big sponsers have to race all season to qualify, teams staffed by genetic freaks that can handle the load. You need perfectly aligned knees and hips, abnormal lung capacity, ect., and that's just the domestiques. It's a culture like the NFL, and for a chic to crack it she would have to be exraordinary indeed. There aren't youth development programs for women like for guys. But it's getting better.
Of course that girl plays pro hockey in Canada. Anything could happen.