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

[Samu Cuenca]

Squiban has gone pop very early on, going in the break today after back to back stage wins was a choice, but it probably wasn't the wisest one...

She was going for the QOM, but she was of course unlucky that Chabbey also ended up in the break.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

avdb struggling

 

[Didinho]

Le Court still doing well.

Don’t expect an attack soon, a long way to go. Just riders dropping.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Van der Breggen drops early, but now she can ride her own pace to the top. She won't win now, but it's still possible for her to overtake riders that go above their limits later on.

 

[Didinho]

Some GC riders without bottles. Demi and Pauline.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Cille lets go, leaves Kasia isolated. Le Court is doing a decent amount of damage here and should return to virtual maillot jaune shortly, as Vollering does still have Muzic up the road.

Van der Breggen drops as Elise Chabbey comes back for FDJ and takes up the tempo, which gives a bit of a Schadenfreude tip.

I just wonder if Demi might have said to Chabbey to take the reins to get rid of Anna, which is sound tactics (even though it takes Muzic out as a card to play with AG) in terms of removing a rival even before we get to the Schadenfreude it must engender for Demi.

PFP at the back of the group isn't ideal, but she looks reasonably comfortabl and Demi is surprisingly far back in that group too, unless she's decided specifically to mark Gigante. After all, Chabbey wouldn't be pacing if she was dropping Demi, and they are now holding the gap to the break which keeps Muzic in play, especially bearing in mind she doesn't need to take any pacing with GC teammates behind.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Some GC riders without bottles. Demi and Pauline.

Demi can still get one handed to her by Chabbey, Labous or even Muzic if they have one though.

KLC struggling a bit, Chabbey is unable to avoid dropping her and has to pull back to give her wheel back as nobody seems all that fussed about riding around the yellow jersey to follow Chabbey's pace.

 

[ppanther92]

Thought Muzic will be stronger.

 

[Didinho]

Demi can still get one handed to her by Chabbey, Labous or even Muzic if they have one though.

Some soigneurs up the road still handing out bottles it seems. Was just thinking it would be a long way without one.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

NFB gives it her all, but Kastelijn is not the rider you wish to have in your wheel.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Graphics still need to tell us where Muzic is, she's only at +1'35 and the maillot jaune group has been losing time since Chabbey swung off so for the time being at least she's still very relevant.

Edit: thank you, now it comes up.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

In all honesty, Demi doesn't look great here. Don't know if she's bluffing since, again, she wouldn't have had Chabbey pump the pace and drop a bunch of riders if she was going to drop herself.

Le Court lets go and here goes Gigante, with Rooijakkers in tow. Labous dropping as well.

Demi slow to react but she is coming across the gap, but she's also been dropped by PFP and Niewiadoma who are trying to hook up with the front, PFP first, then Kasia, and then the group following Demi. PFP's made it and Rooijakkers is suffering a bit to stay with them.

Edit: doesn't look like Demi is bridging this actually. Kasia's holding them at a fixed distance but not catching. Rooijakkers is getting tailed off. The attack also takes the Muzic card away from FDJ so this is a long and lonely road for Demi to manage and hope that the women up front have gone too hard too soon.

 

[Izzyeviel]

Go Sarah go! unleash your inner Lorena!

 

[Tim Cahill]

PFP looks extremely sprightly

 

[Red Rick]

Is it me or does PFP look really easy here

 

[Cycling111]

Pauline became a GT rider at 30.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Is it me or does PFP look really easy here

Does this mean she‘s doing a Del Toro?

 

[Didinho]

Kasia coming closer again. Great race so far. Ghekiere perfect timing. Pauline looks incredible.

 

[Unterlenkerfahrend]

PFP looking incredible

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Some Voeckler faces being pulled

 

[moljoh]

comonnnn Kasia

 

[Red Rick]

PFP halfwheeling as if Gigante is going too slow lol

 

[ChasingPotatoes]

PFP will win this bike race.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I can't help but feel like Gigante is being played for a fool

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Pauline became a GT rider at 30.

She finished on the podium of the Giro at 22 and would have won it if not for time bonuses and that the race leader was her teammate.