Victoria Pendleton

They have the womens tour de france, emma poley won it this year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Boucle

They couldnt get into the mens tour though, there's a big discrepancy in power values.

Stamina wise men and women are equal, infact some physiologists claim womens bodies are better suited to ultra endurance, something to do with fat metabolism + storage apparently.

Yes, people always cite the Grande Boucle - but how many normal people have heard of that? And it gets zero mainstream media coverage. I didn't even know Emma Pooley had won it! Honestly, a British woman wins the equivalent of the TdF and nobody bothers to report it - a British man comes fourth in le Tour and we're all falling over ourselves. (It was the same back when Nicole Cooke won it.)

And why couldn't women ride the same course as the men, on the same days, perhaps starting an hour later or something? Would that cause any logistical problems? (Genuine question - I haven't really thought this through before.)