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When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

When you're the oldest rider at the Tour de France, you really feel it.

When you see it from the outside, then you see just how great the Tour de France is.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.

I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.

I'm excited to see the growth in women's cycling, and I think the Women's Tour has had a really positive impact on that change.

Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.

If we went to the Tour, I'd have to think, what would our purpose be? Would it be to win the Tour de France? I'm not sure I want that pressure.

I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.

Cycling as a whole is totally underestimated.