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Tour de France organisers looking to launch major women's race

By Julien Pretot
FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Tour de France - The 209.5-km Stage 12 from Toulouse to Bagneres-de-Bigorre - July 18, 2019 - The peloton in action on the Hourquette d'Ancizan. REUTERS/Gonzalo Fuentes

PAU, France (Reuters) - Tour de France organisers are looking to launch a major women's race which "would be to women's cycling what the Tour de France is to men's cycling", they said on Friday.

A senior Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) official told Reuters that ASO was setting up a group dedicated to developing women's cycling.

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