Tour de France Femmes 2025 (July 26th- August 3rd)

[JR1012]

Tactic by FDJ is mind blowing.

 

[Didinho]

Beautiful victory for Squiban.

Peloton for the other boni seconds.

 

[Tim Cahill]

You wouldn't know FDJ have the race favourite here really

 

[dgodave]

Go French rider!

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Great win for Squiban who makes up for the Breton riders not winning at home earlier in the race. Fortune favours the Maëva (it doesn't quite work).

 

[JR1012]

Beautiful victory.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Puy de Dome is a lot more built up, less volcanic looking, than when Michael Woods won there (see finish gantry: Couldn't get a screen grab)

 

[Izzyeviel]

NFB fans look away

 

[Red Rick]

GC group raced this stage exactly as the men would have.

Actually, the men would just let the break take this by 5 minutes and roll in.

 

[pmcg76]

That was a complete dud of a stage only saved by seeing an attacking rider win, and yes gutted for NFB, but ironically she moved up a spot on GC, but a Top 10 finish looks difficult now, better to go for a stage win. Tactics by FDJ, truly baffling and of course AG made Gigante work, but it was so easy it hopefully didn't take much out of her.

 

[JosefK]

Good day for Le Court, who added more bonus seconds to her margin over the other GC favorites. Will it be enough when Saturday and Sunday roll around?

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The problem with putting all the, in effect, decisive stages in a cluster in the second half of the race is that you may well get something of a phony war if the pacing isn't optimal, and the geography of the route means that today was always liable to be somewhat conservative among the big favourites. A little surprised we didn't get more secondary figures battling over the stage win and that they let Squiban go so readily, but I guess most of the riders far enough down on the GC to have that freedom also had teammates in the GC mix to look after (Bauernfeind, Vallières) or have already won a stage (García). I mean, Squiban also had a teammate well placed on the GC, but with Longo Borghini having withdrawn already, Włodarczyk is expected to be a bit more tangential to the final GC battle than, say, Niewiadoma...

 

[Red Rick]

I've memed the Giro was the best 2.1 race I ever saw, but the TdFF is really just a Dauphine marketed as a Grand Tour in most ways. Almost every edition, crash notwithstanding, has just been waiting for the final 2 stages in the mountains.

 

[Oldman]

Beautiful victory for Squiban.

Peloton for the other boni seconds.

Squilban was the most chill and effective breakaway rider I've seen in almost any race this year. She rode like she knew exactly the effort to expend once she cracked the one minute gap and never gave back time.
The lead pack rode less efficiently; but she had no way of strategically predicting that. My guess was the favorites "put there best people on it" and when the gap grew they were unwilling to invest another watt of output.
Good for UAE, too.

Can't help but notice some of the favorites are working blocks and some rather cheesy moves to get a gap. Glad some long, hard hills are coming to stop that amateur sh*t.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

For the first time in the history of the new TDFF we have a proper descent finish on our hands.

107 mostly flat kms will bring the peloton from the nearly unavoidable town of Bourg-en-Bresse to the bottom of Côte de Saint-Franc, where Elise Chabbey, Silke Smulders and Brodie Chapman can continue their battle for mountain points.

While it isn't the easiest climb in the race, it will still only be an appetizer for today's main course: Col du Granier.

It is listed as being 8.9 km long, but in reality it is more of a 20 km climb with a false flat part in the middle. The first hard section is the 1.2 km stretch to the QOM at Côte de Berland.

This is in no way the hardest side of Granier, but it is obviously not the intention that the race should be decided today already. However, it's still possible to lose/gain time both uphill and downhill during the last 25 km. Will Van der Breggen pull everyone for no reason once again? Can Gigante hold on in the descent? How will FDJ make sure they don't win the stage? These are some of the questions that will get the answered in the next 7-8 hours.

Granier has featured in the men's Tour de France 17 times since 1947, but the last time was over a decade ago in 2012. The side they're climbing today is to me most famous for Iban Mayo's solo win in a wet Classique des Alpes in 2001, where he upstaged Lance Armstrong for the first time.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIL-CbhUReM

 

[Didinho]

17 riders in front.

Eline Jansen closest to yellow with 5’40”. Very impressed with her this Tour. Should have options for World Tour teams.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Jansen was born without a hip socket (acetabulum).

Explain like i'm five please.

 

[yaco]

17 riders in front.

Eline Jansen closest to yellow with 5’40”. Very impressed with her this Tour. Should have options for World Tour teams.

Is Noa jansen her sister? She is the one from the Liv Devo team who is ready for the WT.

Will Gigante attack on the final climb to get a gap before the descent, as she will struggle on a fast descent.

 

[RedheadDane]

Wow... they just showed a shot of what very much looked like a spectator purposely kicking a bidon back into the peloton.

 

[yaco]

This looks one for the break as there is noreason for the peleton to bring it back.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Yeah, this could in another Squiban victory, unless she's feeling yesterday's effort.

However the gap is decreasing quite fast now, if the GPS can be trusted.

 

[Didinho]

Fenix riding hard now. Don’t know how much the women peloton can take back on a longer climb.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Fenix riding hard now. Don’t know how much the women peloton can take back on a longer climb.

If the break keep looking at each other, a lot

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Fenix riding hard now. Don’t know how much the women peloton can take back on a longer climb.

They can take back a lot if the break doesn't work well together and if Fenix don't run out of gas too fast.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Well, now the break has definitely lost the race within 3 kilometers