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Meg Elliot

'It was new, it was exciting, it was an adventure. And it was about f****** time' - the story of the forgotten women's Tour de France

Dutch sprinter Mieke Havikcools down after winning a stage of the Tour de France.

“What do you mean you raced the Tour de France?”

Almost every woman who raced the Tour between 1984 and 1989 has long been familiar with this question, it seems.

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