Quote Originally Posted by pll View Post
I will chime in to say I was a bit disappointed nobody seemed interested in following the Giro Donne coverage when I posted here. Even though it is Italian, one does not need to understand much to follow the race.
I was following the Giro Donne and the Reve Tour on facebook. I just don't know how to do more than watch the posts and think "Yay, girls on bikes!"

A friend of mine posted this article today in response to a discussion on this very topic on my page on facebook, as a result of my following the Cannondale Women twitter. My post that started the convo was this:

"our hearts are filled with the feeling of proving that impossible things are possible."

So, Cannondale has a group of women riding the Tour de France one day ahead of the male pro teams, and it's called Tour de Reve /Revetour. I've been following along with the girls on twitter, and this tweet came up today. It's totally worth keeping in mind. Just because women don't get sponsored the way men do, doesn't mean women can't ride like the men do...but in our own way.
It was interesting to have the discussion. A friend of mine is a roller derby girl and she posted that she was REALLY happy that when guys do roller derby, it's called "Men's Derby" - a sport where men aren't the default is nice.