an international women's team without points from england the u.s. and australia. australia's pippa lyon did not mind travelling this far to participate. along the road her 11 month old son who's there to cheer her on. since having him it's made even more important to me to just show to the next generation boys and girls that women can do exactly the same as men yes we can do things as foster is strong but we can do it and we can do it really well c. each year there are more and more people calling for there to be an old fishel women's tour de france but so far these demands have fallen on deaf ears . even though back in the 1980 s. the organizers did one stage a women's race along with the men's but then rescheduled the event and that was the end of it christiane predominant charge of the tour de france doesn't want to tell