The Tour de France is a very difficult bike race. It lasts over three weeks and covers 3,351 kilometers. Every day,the riders finish a different part of the race,called a “stage”. Every stage can have a different winner, and each day, the total time is added up. The person who is leading wears a yellow shirt to show that they are winning. But there're no women in the Tour de France, only men. From 1984 to 2009, there was a women's Tour de France. But over time,the event grew smaller and less challenging. In 2009, it ended completely.
The Tour de France is organized by Amaury Sport Organization (ASO). In 2014, ASO began holding a shorter one or two-day race for women called La Course. But it is by no means a long and challenging race with many stages.
To call attention to the need for a women's Tour de France, a French cycling club has taken on an unusual project called “J-1”. As part of J-1,since 2015, a group of women has been riding the exact same course as the men's Tour de France, just one day earlier.
Women won't have to take part in the J-l project in 2022 because ASO has announced that in July of 2022, they'll be holding the Tour de France Femmes (TDFF) —a Tour de France for women.
It'll be an eight-day race with many stages,which will kick off as soon as the men's Tour de France comes to an end. That's likely to help attract viewers. In the past,the women's race was held just before or during the men's race. Now, all the people who have finished watching the men's race and are still looking for some racing excitement will have a chance to tune in for the women's race.
Christian Prudhomme, who organizes the Tour de France says that earlier versions of the women's Tour de France lost money. This time, they are hoping to set the race up in a way that it'll make money, allowing the event to continue.