Quote Originally Posted by pll View Post
The Tour started with 198 riders, and last year there was some discussion about allowing less riders on the course, due to the massive crashes. Today we had another one of those crashes. Frankly, I cannot see a women's field at the same time. it would be nice if a women's field competed on the same course a day earlier.
Unfortunately it takes a *huge* amount of organization to do these races.... an extra day of officials, support and traffic control would probably be too expensive for the organizers.

It might be feasible to send a women's race just after the men, so it would just be a few extra hours.