Woman competing in Tour de France

[PinkBike]

i received this email also, as I am on their mailing list.

it got me for a second, then i read the "happy april fools day" and realized it was a joke.

i'm not the least bit bothered by it, and this coming from someone who is extremely sensitive to the us-vs-them mentality.

maybe if a guy were to see it he would think, yah right, a woman couldn't ride the tour. of course "he" couldn't ride the tour either. but maybe also if a guy reads this forum he thinks we're way over-reacting. i think we are too.

most of the guys i work with know they couldn't do what i do - ride centuries, ride every day, ride to work - and they tell me so.

my take on the email was that it referred to an ordinary corporate exec not specifically a woman. they even showed a picture of a radio shack rider facing behind him and her face was superimposed over it. i thought it was cute.

[OakLeaf]

my take on the email was that it referred to an ordinary corporate exec not specifically a woman.

Except that's not how it was phrased.

...the first female to compete along side the male competitors in this year's 2010 Tour de France. "This is groundbreaking," proclaimed Johan Bruyneel. ... open's the door for other women coming up the ranks.