Marianne Vos

2022 Women's Tour de France: The yellow jersey now belongs to cyclist Marianne Vos, who out-sprinted Silvia Persico and Kasia Niewiadoma to win Monday's ...

“I didn’t expect that we would break away and stay away,” Vos said in her broadcast interview. That trio — plus Elisa Longo Borghini, Elisa Balsamo, and Maike van der Duin — pulled away from the peloton with about 17 kilometers remaining. After two days of racing at the 2022 Women’s Tour de France, the yellow jersey belongs to Dutch cyclist Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma).

Marianne Vos won stage two of the Tour de France Femmes to take the yellow jersey from Lorena Wiebes as crosswinds brought chaos on the road to Provins.

"Of course you're here, you're trying to be focused and take the victory. "We knew we had to be focused and alert with one lap to go where it was narrow and the wind played a role." The 35-year-old Dutch star, a three-time road world champion and eight-time cyclo-cross world champion, sprinted clear of Silvia Persico and Kasia Niewiadoma on the uphill drag to the line; the third stage is a 133.6km hilly stage from Reims to Epernay

An emotional Marianne Vos stood atop the Tour de France podium, fighting back tears as she waited to receive her yellow jersey. She exhaled deeply as the ...

As long as I'm healthy and enjoying racing as much, with this team we are very motivated to work for each other and to aim for a victory so that motivates me also to keep working and to get the best out of myself." As she competed at the elite level, her journalism career followed, and soon she became a full-time cycling journalist. "When nine years ago we were talking with the ASO about an opportunity to get to race, it went really fast to get La Course going and when we raced then the first time on the Champs-Élysées as a mild milestone. At that time there was no Tour de France for women so for me the yellow jersey was never a dream. The petition gathered 97,307 signatures and ASO introduced La Course, a one-day women's race in conjunction with the men's Tour “I went to the Tour de France as a kid.

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“I feel good and try to be the best I can. That motivates me also to keep working and get the best out of myself. I have it now, and it will be very special to wear it in the race.” “Nine years ago when we were talking with the ASO about an opportunity to get the race, it went really fast to get La Course going,” she said. The ASO responded by launching La Course by Le Tour de France. Her commanding sprint into the town of Provins meant that she took control of both green and yellow from Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) who won on Sunday in Paris.