Giro, Tour, Vuelta – in men’s cycling, these three words bring to mind three weeks of drama, glory and pain. The men’s Grand Tours are steeped in tradition and are set apart from the rest of the calendar by their length – which also contributes to their reputations being among the hardest and most extreme elite endurance sports events in the world.
The men’s Grand Tours are, commercially, the biggest races on the cycling calendar, so should the women’s versions of the events follow suit by extending their number of days?
