Comments on: A women’s Tour of Britain http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2412 Nick Barlow's blog Sat, 18 May 2013 16:04:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Gadsden http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2412&cpage=1#comment-244500 Richard Gadsden Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:44:14 +0000 http://www.nickbarlow.com/blog/?p=2412#comment-244500 Thanks for writing this up. I’ve thought for some time that Sky Sports would be the logical sponsor/organiser. They have vast tracts of airtime to fill, and this would be a way to put money somewhere that women’s cycling would get much more benefit than organising a women’t Team Sky. There aren’t the events for women to enter that come close to matching the men’s Giro, Tour and Vuelta.

It would also have the advantage that it would be a completely separate funding stream from Team Sky / British Cycling, so the management there, who are not noted for their support for women’s road cycling, would be separated from it, while also being an effective counter to the question of why Team Sky is men-only.

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