VS did end up showing some of the women's race while they were waiting for images from the men's. Seemed like they showed about 5 laps of the beginning then the last lap. Very hard to see much though, through the rain, and amazingly the video cameras aren't really fast enough to catch the riders clearly.... if you pause everyone is blurry...

You're right about the women not having the good life.... probably not the biggest pro teams, but the semi pro and amateur ones usually even have to pay their own way to the races and buy a lot of their own equipment.... and certainly no soigneur awaits, even more certainly no chef...

I know I saw Metromint, and I think that they are an amateur team from California. They probably all paid their own tickets to be there.