The Holland Ladies Tour is a women's elite professional road bicycle racing stage race held annually in September since 1998 in The Netherlands. It's a tour with 6 or 7 stages. For sponsorship reasons the 2011 race was officially titled the Profile Ladies Tour and the 2012 race the BrainWash Ladies Tour.
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