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

[Didinho]

And now the peloton slows down again. Was it just to protect a top 10 and taking some minutes back.

 

[RedheadDane]

Proudhomme speaks English?

 

[JR1012]

Strange pacing by Fenix.

 

[theyoungest]

And now the peloton slows down again. Was it just to protect a top 10 and taking some minutes back.

It seems nobody wants to win this race.

 

[theyoungest]

Squiban will win her second stage.

 

[Didinho]

Kastelijn dropping Pieterse. And Le Court.

 

[JR1012]

Le Court done.

 

[theyoungest]

Ah, the Fenix work is paying off. Unfortunately also killing Pieterse.

 

[RedheadDane]

Ah, the Fenix work is paying off. Unfortunately also killing Pieterse.

Sacrificing the redhead?! That is despicable!

 

[Lequack]

Maeva Squiban is the new Vollering?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Le Court will be happy to end up increasing her lead after getting dropped.

 

[Cycling111]

I don't like this year's route.

 

[dgodave]

Excellent victory today.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Gigante did lose her seconds in the end.

 

[Didinho]

Double victory. She looks like a real climber and no fear in the descents. Really strong.

 

[JR1012]

Gigante did lose her seconds in the end.

With Rooijakkers +11 secs.

 

[nightowl]

Le Cort doing an Alaphilippe keeping yellow using the descents

 

[yaco]

Squiban has jumped out of the ground from nowhere. I'll be interested to see her progress in 2026.

 

[theyoungest]

Le Court will be happy to end up increasing her lead after getting dropped.

Doesn't really matter, she'll lose the jersey on the Madeleine.

Fenix can't be very satisfied in the end... all their work has resulted in one of their two GC riders dropping out of GC altogether (Pieterse) and the other losing some precious seconds in the end.

 

[theyoungest]

Maeva Squiban is the new Vollering?

The new Pogacar, more like. Her seated acceleration looks just like Pogi. It's the new thing, more efficient and more aesthetically pleasing.

 

[pmcg76]

Doesn't really matter, she'll lose the jersey on the Madeleine.

Fenix can't be very satisfied in the end... all their work has resulted in one of their two GC riders dropping out of GC altogether (Pieterse) and the other losing some precious seconds in the end.

Puck doesn't look to have the form to do much unfortunately, i think she was going better last year. Disappointing to see Gigante and Rooijakers lose time today, but not exactly shocking considering their descending abilities. I think both will be in the shake-up tomorrow, but whether they can take the time from Demi/Kasia /PFP is another question.

That was more fun than yesterday and well done to Squiban, two fantastic rides back to back.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Maeva Squiban is the new Vollering?

She's the new Marc padun

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I don't like this year's route.

I think this year's route fits with the same problem as the men's race really; I think the race (although it misses an ITT) mostly is decently balanced in terms of types of stages, but due to geography the pacing is absolutely atrocious, the fear of the Madeleine MTF to come has largely neutered the last couple of stages, and I feel had it been geographically viable, it would have been better to have had one of the two stages after the MTF (and probably before the final stage), and to have had one of the flat stages between the other one of the descent finish stages and the MTF. But that isn't possible for geographical reasons, same as with the men's Tour this year, where the pacing was absolutely miserable but there wasn't a great deal that could have been done about where the mountains were placed unfortunately.

Gigante did lose her seconds in the end.

With Rooijakkers +11 secs.

The two most predictable time losses from that group unfortunately. I described Rooijakkers last year as being a kind of women's equivalent of Enric Mas. In times of old I compared her to Moncoutié due to her tendency to hang around the back of the bunch due to hating pack racing, and her climbing-biased skillset as a stagehunter, but as the race parcours has developed and she's become more of a threat - and has had to take things like pack racing more seriously to protect her position - Mas is my comparison for her; she's got the engine and she'll almost always be there in the selection on the climbs, but she lacks the weapons to turn those placements into victories, and she does still have a tendency to miss splits in the péloton in flat or undulating stages, lose time on descents, and so on.

Gigante, on the other hand, I'm feeling that my comparable for her is more along the lines of Ivan Basso, but somewhere between the two versions of him. Her climbing seems to be better the longer the climb is, which makes me feel like his turbo diesel style (even if not aesthetically) is the kind of role she fulfils in the women's péloton, but her descending is abject and somewhere she is always liable to lose time and she just looks uncomfortable. Watching Basso descend you always knew just by looking at him that he was struggling. However when it comes to things like time trials and flat engine, Gigante is perhaps not in Robobasso's league relative to competition, but she's a lot more adept than post-ban Basso was too.

 

[Akuryo]

In my opinion Gigante looked really comfortable going over the final mountain. Like she would've attacked if not for the situation behind with Le Court. You could see her twitching in 2nd position but morally couldn't go for it. So I don't know, 45 seconds seems like something she could do over the weekend. They might have fumbled it not dropping her more than that. The chances were there in recent days but nobody was willing to actually put the hammer down so she only lost a couple of seconds here and there.

 

[tobydawq]

In my opinion Gigante looked really comfortable going over the final mountain. Like she would've attacked if not for the situation behind with Le Court. You could see her twitching in 2nd position but morally couldn't go for it. So I don't know, 45 seconds seems like something she could do over the weekend. They might have fumbled it not dropping her more than that. The chances were there in recent days but nobody was willing to actually put the hammer down so she only lost a couple of seconds here and there.

It might have been a Gigantic mistake.