Tour de France Femmes

Stage 1 – 24th July 2022. Prior to the men final stage, the women will take on 12 laps of the Champs Elysées circuit. A maillot jaune will reward the ...

Winner of the Giro KOM, Kristen Faulkner would want to repeat her feat. It is impossible to beat Annemiek Van Vleuten unless someone like Anna Henderson, Alexandra Manly or Shirin Van Antooij tries something from the breakaway. The aim of which is to make like hard for those pure sprinters. ★★★★☆ Marianne Vos There will be around 13km of gravel ‘chemins blancs’ to cover. A maillot jaune will reward the fastest women on earth.

After the French revolution in 1789 Marie Antoinette was arrested. She spent the last weeks of her life in the Conciergerie prison on Ile de la Cité in the ...

Who will write the next part of the history of women in Paris by winning the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes on the Champs-Élysées and receive the first yellow jersey? Her research together with her husband Pierre Curie also led to the discovery of two new elements ‘radium’ and ‘polonium’. After she received the Nobel Prize in physics in 1903, the Université de Paris named one of their new buildings after her. The first woman to be buried in the Pantheon was Sophie Berthelot. Her husband, the scientist, Marcellin Berthelot, had refused to be buried without her so in 1907 they were buried together. She spent the last weeks of her life in the Conciergerie prison on Ile de la Cité in the Seine River. The charges against her were that she was part of the conspiracy against the French state. Regarded by some as a martyr of the French Revolution, a fashion icon and now a queen of pop, Queen Marie Antoinette continues to unleash passions more than 200 years after her death. The past three weeks were no different in Hors Course. Today we honor some of the most intelligent, interesting and amazing women with ties to beautiful Paris.

Jumbo-Visma rider Marianne Vos has hailed the historic return of the Tour de France Femmes as "a big thing around the world," adding: "It will impact the fans, and the possibility of showing women's cycling across the globe will make a difference." Stream ...

Of course, we can say it has taken too long, but I'm happy it's here." Sometimes you can't push and need time to grow and get everything ready to have this kind of race. “It's a big thing around the world.

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Out of a total of 14 in the field. Thanks to a nice little QOM point at 62.4km, we can even expect a thrilling fight for the polka dot jersey. If that doesn't give you an idea of the strength of the field. Her experience will surely be invaluable as she hopes to guide Demi Vollering to victory in the general classification. She seems more than settled in the team car, however, and is doing a more than commendable job. I have to say, after this race was announced a year ago, I was a little surprised that the Dutch star didn't postpone her retirement to allow her to compete as a rider.

This is not a token event to entertain the crowd while they wait for the men's peloton to arrive. It's a full-on, eight-day event that will cover everything ...

Femke Markus has been with the team since 2019 and has already added two victories to her palmarès this year, including an impressive win at the Leiedal Koerse where she won in a three-up sprint. Factor-sponsored Team Parkhotel Valkenburg has a strong group of established and up-and-coming riders, who have the right mix of qualities to be aggressive in every stage. Starting in Paris on the final day of the men’s Tour, it traces its way 1033 kilometers through northeastern France arriving on the final day for a dramatic finish at the top of the Super Planche des Belles Filles.

With enough of a lead to hold off a charging peloton, Marta Lach (Ceratizit-WNT), Femke Markus (Parkhotel Valkenburg) and Anne Dorthe Ysland (Uno-X) are free to ...

The St Michel - Auber93 rider's rear mech appears to have seized up. Her experience will surely be invaluable as she hopes to guide Demi Vollering to victory in the general classification. I have to say, after this race was announced a year ago, I was a little surprised that the Dutch star didn't postpone her retirement to allow her to compete as a rider. With just a lone rider off the front, the peloton isn't too concerned so take the opportunity to fuel, water and take on ice packs. Majerus looks merely frustrated but Castrique went down hard and has to abandon the race already. Her tongue hangs out as she increases her lead to over 40 seconds, the biggest gap of any breakaway group so far.

The Tour de France Femmes rolls away from the Eiffel Tower for an 80km circuit race on the Champs Elysées. Join Luke McLaughlin.

77km to go: Amandine Fouquenet (Arkea-Samsic) jumps off the front of the bunch and builds an advantage of a couple of seconds, but is soon swallowed up by the chasing pack. 81km to go: The peloton is strung out initially, but is now bunched back together and it all calms down. Some even fancy that Marianne Vos (Jumbo–Visma) might win it and take the yellow jersey. A solo rider, Morgane Coston (Arkea) is now trying to bridge across and is about 14sec down. The breakaway is duly reeled in, and Marianne Vos is led out expertly by Jumbo-Visma, bursting away to take a comfortable victory in the dash for the line. 48km to go: There is a massive injection of pace from the main bunch approaching the intermediate sprint, so their green-jersey hopefuls can fight it out for the points. 30km to go: Henrietta Christie (Human Powered Health) powers across to Allinn up front, and keeps on going, launching a solo attack of her own. 15km to go: Gladys Verhulst (Le Col-Wahoo) has grabbed a 26sec lead in front of the peloton with a solo effort. 26km to go: That was a hotly-contested race for the second intermediate sprint point. She still has a lead of 12sec but will doubtless be swallowed up by the bunch before the next sprint point. 21km to go: Next up will be the solitary categorised climb of the day. Ysland (Uno-X Pro Cycling) made a break for it, but was overhauled ... she does have a solitary KOM point to show for her efforts.

Having played an integral role in bringing the Tour de France Femmes to fruition, Marianne Vos has described the event as “bigger than sports”.

Of course, we can say it has taken too long, but I'm happy it's here." Sometimes you can't push and need time to grow and get everything ready to have this kind of race. “It's a big thing around the world.

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I feel extremely excited to race in this first edition of the Tour de France Femmes. It is an honor to be able to participate in something that so many have fought so hard for. It’s a strange feeling to be so close to the start of the Tour de France Femmes and I think it will only feel real when we get to Sunday, that’s when it will all click. I am really looking forward to the start of the Tour de France Femmes, I’m excited for the wait to be over. Of course, I also dream about a stage win, but first and foremost, I will be working for the team. I think it’s super cool that our team has a really strong team for the race, we have new kit, new bikes and everything is special for this race just like the race itself. It’s going to be even more special for me because I will be the rainbow jersey in the first edition of this new Tour de France Femmes so it’s amazing for me and I am also very happy about this. It’s not necessarily been one of my biggest goals of the season, it’s a bit of a shame for me that there’s no time trial, but there are a lot of nice other stages and opportunities so, it will be fun. I am very excited for the Tour de France Femmes and I really want to enjoy every moment of it from the first stage to the last one. I felt a little bit off after Nationals, but Baloise Ladies Tour showed me that my strength and shape is back and that’s why I am looking forward to the race. I am definitely looking forward to this race because I think it’s going to be a great celebration of women’s cycling. The inaugural Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will be eight days, and the Champs-Élysées will be the first stage to kick it off rather than being another one-day edition of La Course, a race offered to the women for the past eight years. It’s really special and I feel privileged to be part of this race.

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"I was quite relaxed before the start. We did everything as normal, we saw it as a normal race but of course I was quite nervous towards the end." "The team did an amazing job," said Wiebes. "It was a really chaotic and long sprint."

The second stage of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift stage runs the 85 miles from Meaux to Provins, beginning just outside of Paris. The stage is flat, ...

And Lorena Wiebes of Team DSM will certainly be hoping to protect her hard-fought yellow jersey, so expect to see those three women sprinting hard in stage 2 as well. It's still a bit too early to truly call out the frontrunners in the race, but the women (and teams) who were strong in the flat and fast stage yesterday will likely be strong on day two as well. There's only one intermediate sprint at kilometer 91, and the race finishes with a small lap around Provins.

Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands lived up to expectations as she won the opening stage of the women's Tour de France.

It was a very long sprint but I was expecting it as I was getting ready for Marianne Vos to go early,” said Wiebe. We’ve had a great season so far. “It’s incredible, the girls worked tirelessly for me.

The day started at the foot of the Eiffel Tower where the women's peloton set out to complete an 82-kilometer course that would see the winner of the first ...

Riders like Movistar’s Annemiek van Vleuten, Demi Vollering (SD Worx), and Marta Bastianelli (FDJ) just need to hold tight, stay rubber-side down, and hydrated in the upcoming days. Movistar and Jumbo were the only teams with clear sprint trains in the last kilometers of the race, though Ellen van Dijk from Trek-Segafredo drove the pace while teammate Elisa Balsamo improvised in the peloton to get into a better position for the sprint. As expected, the short 82-kilometer race was a spicy one, with attacks early on, plus sprints and QOM points that kept the pace high.

The 640-mile stage race features two mountain stages and ends in the Vosges Mountains. In the 119-year existence of the men's tour, women have competed in the ...

If they see women in sport, and it’s exciting, they’re going to see that as an option.” You have a wide variety of women who could be winning the race.” Zwift is funding a total prize purse for the women’s race of 250,000 euros, with 50,000 going to the winner. For now, that means eight stages instead of the 21 stages that men ride. Race organizers say the goal is to grow women’s cycling to the point where full parity is possible, but they are starting with what is most sustainable first. The men’s prize purse is 2.3 million euros, with 500,000 going to the winner. “The best of the best are making good money these days, but for most pro women, it’s still squeaking by and a challenging career choice. “They know everything they do is going to impact the opportunities that come after them.” “Women’s sports is trending hard because the companies that have invested in sports are seeing fabulous returns,” Veronneau said. Williams said her mom, speed skating Olympian Sarah Docter, was a pro-cyclist in the 1980s who never had the chance to ride the Tour. “She got burned out really early,” Williams said. “It’s been huge to have that time to rest and recover. “For little girls growing up and seeing themselves in a variety of sports … that’s powerful.”

Team DSM fast woman pulls on the yellow jersey, outsprinting Marianne Vos after attack-filled opener in Paris.

0:00 0:00 0:00 “When Lorena has a good position and launched her sprint, I couldn’t meet her speed. In this drag race, the younger Dutchwoman proved fastest. Markus raised an arm in celebration as she got the better of Ysland, with a speeding bunch nipping at their heels. Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx), resplendent in a blue-black jersey designed by teammate Amy Pieters, pipped Manly for the points on offer. She took the cheers and encouragement from the crowd, joined briefly by Henrietta Christie (Human Powered Health). Kristen Faulkner and Elise Chabbey were among those affected during the race. This was a special win to savor for a sprinter who already has more than 50 in the pro ranks. Wiebes accelerated a moment after she did and showed her peerless speed on the left side, winning by over a bike length. She was the favorite and with the pressure on in Paris, Lorena Wiebes delivered.

The Dutchwoman was pipped at the line by Lorena Wiebes during the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes.

The fact that I came so close gives me a good feeling.” In 2014, Vos was one of three cyclists to pen a petition to Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, demanding that women be allowed to race. Although the finish was bittersweet, Vos still made time to enjoy the historic day.

The Tour de France Femmes got underway on Sunday as the women's peloton descended on Paris, now it is time for Stage 2.

An inclinometer feature will be introduced, a 3D representation bringing to life the gradients faced by the peloton. The Medieval town is on the UNESCO world heritage list although hosting the peloton may prove to be a higher honour. Brie, Champagne - hang on, the picnic will have to wait.

Another excellent performance from the Team DSM lead out sees the Dutch rider sprint into history.

Lotte Kopecky (SDWorx) was third. But even with less than 20km to go the race did not settle, Gladys Verhulst (Le Col-Wahoo) attacked over the top of Markus’s success and quickly built a lead of 35 seconds. That did not make the race any less significant though, with any rider or team with a whisper of a chance of that first yellow jersey desperate to win it. 7. Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo On the second circuit Human Powered Health’s Dutch climber Nina Buijsman got away, though she was caught by seven others, making too large a group at the front for such a short race. And we were back in Paris for stage one, a race difficult to differentiate from the first three editions of La Course. 7. Elisa Balsamo (Ita) Trek-Segafredo The win came at the end of a chaotic stage 81.7km stage. 3. Lotte Kopecky (Bel) SDWorx After a long wait a Tour de France for women was finally back. It was another patient performance from Team DSM who were nowhere to be seen as the front of the race passed under the one kilometre marker. Vos’ Jumbo-Visma team mate, Anna Henderson was her final lead out, while Wiebes waited slightly further back, out of the wind.

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In the USA and Canada, you can watch the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift live every day on CNBC, with live pictures being shown for two hours everyday. Highlights packages will also be available. Try out Express VPN (opens in new tab) for its speed, security and simplicity to use. Alternatively, access to GCN+ also costs £39.99 a year, or £6.99 per month. Below, we detail everything you need to know about how to watch the first edition of this revived race. - Watch the Tour de France Femmes live on GCN+, Discovery+ and Eurosport in the UK and Europe

The eight-stage race heads out of Paris and across the Brie region towards Champagne. Join Luke McLaughlin for the latest.

130km to go: The attacking has begun. 121km to go: The break now has 1min 35sec on the chasing bunch. We have to see exactly what the wind is like on the road, but for us it’s also fine to go with a smaller group to the finish line.” 83km to go: It’s Trek-Segafredo causing a lot of the mischief. The gap has fallen to 2’07” as a result. 84km to go: It looks very much like certain teams are trying to force splits in the peloton and knock some rivals out of the GC picture by the end of the stage. 80km to go: Just 23secs for the break now. There’s time for some of the riders to take a drink and a bit of food. 79km to go: This massive acceleration by the peloton is going to mop up the breakaway, who are now just 11secs ahead. 69km to go: Franziska Koch leads the way for Team DSM at the front of the peloton, helping to set the fearsome pace this stage is now being raced at. It’s going to define the final.” 47km to go: It’s still Liv Racing setting the pace at the front.

- Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) won the stage 1 sprint in Paris ahead of Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) and Lotte Kopecky (SDWorx) and thereby became the first leader of ...

Four opportunists are ahead of the pack at the moment. The second stage of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes will be underway soon. The gap is down under two and a half minutes. Gerritse crests the climb first to take the two QOM points on offer at the top, with Raaijmakers nabbing second place for a single point. They offer a glimpse into a town that was a prominent host of trading fairs, and several of the historic buildings date back to the 12th century. The gap is inching up towards three minutes. The break's gap is now down to just 45 seconds. Still, the peloton continues to move along at a healthy pace. The speed is having an impact. Uttrup Ludwig is behind that with about 30 seconds to make up to the pack. We're into the final 10km of the stage now. They have a 24-second gap right now to a peloton that is lined out in pursuit.

Marianne Vos stamped her authority on the Tour de France Femmes after flying to victory on Stage 2, taking the yellow jersey in the process.

This group linked up with Van der Duin and combined perfectly to stay away from the pursuing bunch and contest the victory. Cavalli later withdrew from the race after riding dazed and injured to the finish line. The contrast between the beginning of the day and the end couldn’t have been more stark.

Cavalli was one of three riders to go down during stage 2 after she was hit from behind at speed by another rider.

It’s the first big chance and an opportunity for the future,” Delcourt said. With crosswinds on the menu, stage 2 from Meaux to Provins was a tense affair for the peloton. Cavalli’s incident occurred when three riders came down in front of her and she slowed to navigate her way around them. Now, our doctor and physio are with Marta and they go to the hospital for scans. We want the best for her.” Cavalli was on the ground for some time before finally getting back on her bike.

Marianne Vos emphatically out-sprinted her five breakaway companions to claim stage two and the yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes in Provins.

After Maike van der Duin led a group of six, including Vos, clear of the mayhem, the break built a lead on the finishing circuit that guaranteed they would decide the stage victory. “When nine years ago we were talking with ASO [Amaury Sport Organisation] about an opportunity to get a race, it went really fast to get La Course going,” Vos recalled. “We were aiming to take a stage win and we knew that was going to be hard but we wanted to take the opportunity when it came,” she said.

It's not unheard of for fairly routine sprint days to end with general classification changes, but stage two of the Tour de France Femmes was unexpectedly ...

“It’s like saving a little bit of money so then I have something to spare, but the pure climbers are probably 10 kilos less than me.” “We thought it was a good place to attack because there were some crosswinds and we wanted to gain time on GC,” explained the Italian who had team mate and world champion Elisa Balsamo with her. With a large peloton and a wide spectrum of abilities from hardened professionals to some riders who are at best semi professional chaos ensued.

Marianne Vos' tactics to claim victory and the yellow jersey on Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes have drawn huge praise from Eurosport's Breakaway team.

And yet she's still trying to better herself race on race.” She's incredible.” Tour de France Femmes

'It's a little bit like saving a little bit of money,' Longo Borghini said after gaining 40 seconds on GC favorites. 'Then I have something to spare'

It was already split up before, then it got stretched out with all the stuff, and I think it was hard for some teams to be organized because they had lost some riders so yeah, it was kinda pretty nasty there.” We’ll just see, but it’s good to be up front and try to put a little bit of a stamp on the bike race. The American squad dominated a crucial six-rider escape that went clear in the final 20km. “It might not matter at all,” Teutenberg said. “All the team was really super. “Elisa Balsamo was really, really strong.

Trek-Segafredo gained 32 seconds on GC after a pre-planned attack saw Elisa Balsamo deliver Elisa Longo Borghini into the winning move on stage 2 of the ...

"Elisa [Balsamo] really wanted to go full gas for me," she said. "We saw beforehand in the briefing this morning," Longo Borghini said. Rather than an opportunistic move on what was a tough finishing circuit, this was Trek-Segafredo's plan from the start of the day.

With the men's race done and dusted Caley and the crew hand over the mic to Amy Jones and Matt de Neef on the ground at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

In today’s episode, Jonny checks in from a motorbike in the middle of the Tour de France then the crew sit down to discuss the first mountaintop finish. It was a day where Wout van Aert and Tadej Pogacar took turns dominating the entire Tour de France field. One of the best and most impactful Tour de France stages in a decade. Jonny, Ronan, and Caley are joined by Pippa York to talk through it all. Shoddy, Jonny, and Ronan are joined by Philippa York on the eve of the first stage of the Tour de France to talk through overall contenders, Copenhagen atmosphere, the first time trial, and much more. Stage 2 had us all on our feet, and not always for great reasons.

Bib shorts make it complicated, but not impossible. Two pros racing the TdF Femmes avec Zwift explain.

I had never ridden no-handed in a race and here I am, trying to zip my jersey back up as I try to get back on the group, I’m nervous, and my hands are sweaty…. Just don’t,” adds Doebel-Hickok. So, the next time you’re out riding and feeling the need to pee, remember: You’re just like the pros. “Usually our riders will see if any teammates want to stop together, and ideally when other teams or riders do too,” adds Krista Doebel-Hickok of Team EF Education Tibco SVB. “Only a couple of times in my last decade of racing has the whole peloton stopped.” But I had to go—so I was trying to unzip my jersey while I was on the bike.” I road up next to the team car and handed them my radio and I was like, ‘Can you help me put it back in?’ They shove it down my sports bra and fit it in. “My radio fell out and got twisted in my jersey, and I was trying to throw my jersey back on, but the last car was coming in the caravan.

With four QOMs on course, it's the climbers' time to shine. Can the sprinters maintain their advantage?

Team SD Worx also has three riders we’ll be watching closely as we get into more climbing stages: Ashley Moolman-Pasio and Demi Vollering will likely get closer to their teammate, stage 1 winner Lotte Kopecky, who lost valuable seconds in stage 2. This isn't a mountain stage—those come later in the week—but it certainly is a change from the flat, fast first two stages of the race. Expect to see Movistar’s Annemiek van Vleuten in the mix trying to make up time after losing critical seconds to the leaders yesterday, and we won't be surprised if Bike-Exchange's Kristen Faulkner makes an appearance after her strong climbing days at the Giro Donne earlier this month.

The Dutch sprinter thanks DSM for developing her as the team confirm she will leave at the end of the season.

I'm happy to be in this team and why I said we make it a great year.” Nobody gives each other space of course because everyone who wants to be in the front.” “That's not the best moment but we are professional riders and we keep on achieving our goals for the rest of the season, and we make it a great season.

Cavalli out of race after Australian champion ploughs into her on stage 2 amid chaos of a chase back and crash.

Unfortunately, as I came off the wheel I was unaware [of] riders on the road from another crash. It was hectic and I didn't feel comfortable all day. Frain careened off of Cavalli, who hit the ground hard, and was launched over the crashed riders, landing hard.