Women have been a rare species in cycling for too long – stats from the Tour de France Femmes suggest we're finally seeing real change

Demi Vollering after finishing the tour de france femmes avec zwift in 2026.

I’ve been working in cycling and – by nature of being a woman working in cycling – women’s cycling for around 15 years, and if there’s one sentence I’m sick off, it’s “well, things are improving, it’s just slow.”

“Progress is there, but it’s incremental.”