Womens Professional Cycling News: 'Casino' Chaos!

Top women's professional teams took action in refusing to start in 18th Giro Della Toscana 2013. Many top teams including Rabo Women, Orica-AIS, Sengers, Specialized-lululemon, Boels, Wiggle, USA, Optum, Argos-Shimano, Hitec Products, and also Italian team BePink refused to roll out as some Italian teams and German National team rode the stage.

This race has a history of bad road control and chaos in general. This year's race saw Chloe Hosking knocked off by a photographer as she sprinted for the line. Thankfully she was not badly hurt.

Article written by C J Farquharson of WomensCycling.net goes into depth about the protest:
http://www.womenscycling.net/2013/EventsPages2013/09_Toscana/04_Stage4.htm