For six glorious years during the 1980s, The tour de France held a women’s race alongside the men’s race. The women’s race delivered underdog victories, great rivalries, and immense feats of courage. They battled financial hardship, injuries, discrimination, derision, the emerging doping culture and logistical nightmares.

 

More than three decades later, the women look back at their brief moment at the pinnacle of cycling. What did they lose? What did they gain? And what can these pioneers of women’s sports offer to the next generation who dare to dream?