Profile & Route Giro Donne 2025 - No Mortirolo but 3 summit finishes and final stage in the Imola 2020 World Championships circuit

That’s not their choice though is it, as so often, decided by a few ageing men who got elected by others like them. The whole system isn’t even more modern than religion. Imagine the laughter if women had been “advised”their full game of football would be 2x15 minutes. Now obviously, some smartass official will justify it as having nothing to do with fitness but a necessity from marketing and financial points of view, having now background data of the market and public for women’s cycling. I’ve rarely cycled with women who couldn’t last as long as men, in fact, in endurance cycling, there are women who outdo the men, some in particular you should maybe read up on : Beryl Burton, Lael Wilcox, Leah Goldstein, Isa Pulver and the list is far longer if, unlike most, you’d decide it was of interest to change your misconceptions and understand the difference is artificially maintained, mostly due to some hard to destroy form of discrimination.