Reality wins.......again.

[sinkov]

"Women’s Tour ‘impossible to deliver’ as organisers admit defeat over 2023 event"

"The Women’s Tour will not take place this summer after the organising company admitted defeat in its attempts to find the funding required to stage the five-day Women’s WorldTour race in June.

Last month Sweetspot announced a five-day route for the popular race, down from the usual six, but warned it needed to find £500,000 in new sponsorship in order to go ahead – even launching a crowdfunding campaign to try to spur interest. It set a soft deadline of Easter to make progress before it would need to start paying deposits on some of the primary expenses, mainly accommodation at this point, but has now announced that the target is for the race to return for its 10th anniversary edition in 2024."

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/20...ver-2023-event

The men's race will be taking place as usual. The reality is that the girls cannot ride their bikes as fast, as hard or for as long as the men, it is in other words an inferior product and inferior products are always a hard sell. That's the reality, and despite the best efforts of the media, especially the BBC, I suspect it's a problem that women's football will also have to face sooner or later.

[kritichris]

Those who advocate equal pay for women doing the same sport ignore that the best woman, in a sport that requires strength and endurance as well as skill, will not be able to compete with men (Billy Jean King aside). That's why the Olympics have separate competitions for men and women. It would be interesting to have a fixture between the top WSL team and a team from League Division 2 (or lower?).

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Those who advocate equal pay for women doing the same sport ignore that the best woman, in a sport that requires strength and endurance as well as skill, will not be able to compete with men (Billy Jean King aside). That's why the Olympics have separate competitions for men and women. It would be interesting to have a fixture between the top WSL team and a team from League Division 2 (or lower?).

They would get pasted k_c, I've quite taken to the WSL but the physical difference between them and the professional men's game is astonishing.

[kritichris]

They would get pasted k_c, I've quite taken to the WSL but the physical difference between them and the professional men's game is astonishing.

More so with the goalkeepers.