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Results and Highlights From the 2022 Tour de France Femmes

Stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights from this year’s race.

Final overall standings:

1. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED/MOV), 2. Demi Vollering (NED/SDW) at 3min 48sec, 3. Katarzyna Niewiadoma (POL/CSR) 6:35, 4. Juliette Labous (FRA/DSM) 7:28, 5. Silvia Persico (ITA/VAL) 8:00, 6. Elisa Longo Borghini (ITA/TRE) 8:26, 7. Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (DEN/FDS) 8:59, 8. Evita Muzic (FRA/FDS) 13:54, 9. Veronica Ewers (USA/EFT) 15:05, 10. Mavi Garcia (ESP/UAE) 15:15

Selected: 26. Marianne Vos (NED/JUM) at 36:56

Read below for stage-by-stage updates, results, and highlights of each stage.

Dutch veteran Annemiek van Vleuten produced the perfect ride on Sunday to win the women's Tour de France with a resounding victory in the eighth and final stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles.

The 39-year-old Movistar rider, who grabbed the lead with a brilliant solo performance in the mountains on Saturday, bided her time in the peloton before powering up the final climb to seal her triumph.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) finished second to claim second overall with Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) third in the final standings after a fourth place finish on Sunday's stage.

Van Vleuten, a three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia and time-trial gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, began the 123-kilometre final stage with a 3min 14sec lead over Vollering which was never in danger in spite of having a mechanical problem with her bike 57kms from the finish which required a quick swap with a teammate.

The yellow jersey group reeled in the 11-rider breakaway with five kilometres to go at which point van Vleuten climbed out of her saddle and began powering her way up the final crippling climb.

She crossed the line 30secs ahead of compatriot Vollering to give her a 3min 48sec winning margin over the eight stages. Vollering at least had the consolation of winning the Queen of the Mountains polka dot jersey.

Valcar rider Silvia Persico of Italy took third on the stage, crossing the line just ahead of Poland's Niewiadoma.

Dutch veteran Annemiek van Vleuten took the yellow jersey in the women's Tour de France with a crushing performance in the mountains which powered her to a remarkable solo victory on Saturday's penultimate stage.

Movistar rider van Vleuten, 39, began the day almost a minute and a half behind the leader Marianne Vos but raced solo with 62km still to go in the mountainous 127.5km stage from Selestat to Le Markstein Fellering.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) finished second, 3mins 30sec behind, with Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) winning the sprint for third.

Van Vleuten, who was sick at the start of the week and almost pulled out of the Tour, now leads by 3min 09sec ahead of Vollering and is the clear favourite to win the race when it ends with Sunday's stage eight on the Super Planche des Belles Filles.

"It has been such a roller coaster," said van Vleuten.

"I have been so sick and to win with this is unbelievable and beautiful. To finish here solo, I had to try because I was behind.

"My style is always attacking not waiting for the final (sprint)."

Van Vleuten attacked as soon as the peloton arrived at the Petit Ballon, the first of the day's torturous climbs.

"I did a reconnaissance of the stage and noticed that the Petit Ballon was a difficult climb," she said.

"After six days of waiting, surviving and recovering, I wanted to make the biggest time gaps and it meant going on the first climb. This stage suited me really well. I knew if I would be fit enough after being sick, it would be my day."

Team Jumbo–Visma rider Vos, who held the yellow jersey at the start of the day after clocking two wins and five podiums in the opening six stages, was unable to stay in touch and eventually limped in almost 25mins after van Vleuten.

Marianne Vos of Team Jumbo-Visma kept a firm grip on the leader's yellow jersey on the women's Tour de France with victory in Friday's sixth stage between Saint-Die-des-Vosges and Rosheim.

The 35-year-old Dutch rider edged out Team UAE Emirates' Marta Bastianelli and Lotte Kopecky of Team SD Worx in the sprint for the line at the end of the 128.6km stage.

Lorena Wiebes, who won the opening stage in Paris and triumphed again in Thursday's stage five, finished 7min 34sec behind her compatriot Vos after suffering a nasty fall, along with Kopecky and Alena Amialiusik, 24km from the finish.

It was a second stage win and fifth podium in the six stages of the Tour for Vos who extended her lead by 10 seconds. She is now 30 seconds ahead of Valcar's Italian rider Silvia Persico and Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Canyon/SRAM with two stages to come.

"It was quite a difficult race," said Vos.

"We had a good situation with Anna Henderson in the breakaway. It was a big breakaway and a strong chase, and (we had) the Cote de Boersch two times which caused some action... and it was also stretched out on a pretty difficult descent.

"The rest of the girls, they kept me in the front, kept me constantly out of the wind.

"They did a perfect job to keep me in front and keep the speed really high until the last corner and then I was in a good position.

"I also felt I was coming from the back so I hoped I could keep it to the line."

Saturday's seventh stage could provide a big shake-up as the Tour heads into the mountains for the first time with three big climbs and a 3,000 metres rise in altitude between Selestat and Le Markstein in the east of France.

The race ends on Sunday with a grand finale up the iconic La Super Planche des Belles Filles.

Another Dutch rider, Movistar's Annemiek van Vleuten, a three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia and time trial gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympics, is lurking just 1min 28sec behind Vos.

All the breakaways on the Tour so far have come to nothing and the Alsace wine route on Friday was equally unforgiving as the riders took on four categorised climbs.

Trek-Segafredo pair Audrey Cordon-Ragot and Elisa Longo Borghini led a breakaway group of 14 riders which built a gap of two minutes before being largely chased down on the final climb with 10km to go.

The last survivor Marie Le Net was caught in the descent to Rosheim, four kilometres from the finish.

Vos positioned herself perfectly in the final sprint and had too much power for Bastianelli and Lopecky.

Lorena Wiebes sprinted to victory in the fifth stage of the Tour de France Femmes on Thursday in Saint-Die-des-Vosges.

The Dutch rider blew away her rivals to cross the line ahead of Italian world champion Elisa Balsamo and yellow jersey wearer Marianne Vos, claiming her second stage win after Sunday’s opener in Paris.

“I felt strong in the sprint, and I’m delighted to win it after such a long stage,” said Wiebes after the longest stage of the week at over 176.5km from Bar-le-Duc to Saint-Die.

The Team DSM rider proved she is almost unbeatable in a sprint, with only Balsamo managing to beat her twice this season. Wiebes claimed her 17th victory and the 53rd of the 23-year-old’s career.

Jumbo-Visma’s Vos took four bonus seconds thanks to her third place and gained time over all her rivals going into the final three days of racing.

“The aim is to take the green jersey,” said Wiebes of the honor going to the top sprinter.

The 35-year-old Vos, one of the great names of cycling, leads the general standings after her fifth top five finish in as many stages.

But several top sprinters lost out after being caught up in a mass crash 45km from the finish line. Belgian Lotte Kopecky was delayed and then slowed down by mechanical problems, with Danish rider Emma Norsgaard taking a hard hit to her left shoulder.

Friday’s sixth stage covers 129km to Roshelm before the weekend in the Vosges mountains.

Swiss rider Marlen Reusser won the women’s Tour de France fourth stage on Wednesday, as Dutchwoman Marianne Vos retained the overall leader’s yellow jersey while crossing the line in fifth place.

Reusser, 30, broke away with 15km left after four gravel sections in the Champagne wine region, with Evita Muzic in second place and Belarussian Alena Amialiusik in third.

“I think here in this Tour every day is hard, at least for me,” Reusser, a former doctor, told Eurosport. “This stage suited the kind of rider I am with these gravel sections... The team had a plan to do a hard race and not let it come down to an easy finale. We just said attack and one would go. I was lucky it was me.”

The 35-year-old Vos, who took over the yellow jersey with victory in Stage two on Monday keeps a 16-second advantage over her closest rivals, Italian Silvia Persico and Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma.

Spanish veteran Mavi Garcia lost more than one minute and 30 seconds in the general standings after issues on the uneven surface, which included crashing with a team car ,as riders suffered numerous punctures; but Vos and her fellow Jumbo-Visma riders survived unscathed.

“We spent a lot of energy to stay in front, and you had to really fight for a position before the gravel sections and the climbs as well,” Vos told reporters. “We weren’t very concerned, we had to stay in front and stay out of trouble. We did, so I’m happy about that.”

During the dust-filled gravel sections, which passed through the world-renowned vineyards in eastern France, Tuesday’s stage winner Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig and yellow jersey contender Niewiadoma suffered punctures before rejoining the peloton.

With 15km to go, Reusser, the European road time-trial champion, made an attack from a big leading bunch as the riders returned to normal roads. Niewiadoma’s Canyon-SRAM teammate Amialiusik, racing as a neutral rider after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year, then followed the Swiss as the group broke up. Frenchwoman Muzic, age 23, completed the breakaway.

Reusser claimed the three-second bonus atop Cote des Bergers with less than 10km to go and was first over the final climb of the day on Cote du Val Perdu, with 5km left. She dominated the closing stages and pointed at her team name on her dust-covered jersey, then held her arms wide open as she crossed the finish line in Bar-sur-Aube.

Thursday’s fifth stage is a flat 175.6km ride from Bar-le-Duc eastwards to Saint-Die-des-Vosges near the German border.

The eight-day race finishes on Sunday on La Super Planche des Belles Filles , where two-time winner Tadej Pogacar claimed stage victory during the men’s Tour earlier this month.

Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig outsprinted Marianne Vos to win Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes on Tuesday, but the veteran Dutch rider held on to the yellow jersey.

The day after a nightmare Stage 2 for her FDJ Suez Futuroscope team, marked by the abandonment of title contender Marta Cavalli, Ludwig battled back from a fall to produce a vintage performance amid the Champagne wine country.

After two relatively flat rides, the peloton had to face its first climbs as they took on the 133.6km course from Reims to Epernay.

Eleven riders slugged it out over the final stages, with Vos working hard to rejoin the leaders after being dropped. The 35-year-old, who took over the yellow jersey with victory in Stage two on Monday, sprinted hard, but it was 26-year-old Ludwig who powered through the line first.

“I wanted to help the team, keep my fighting spirit,” said Luwig, who was wearing the jersey of Danish champion. “I knew that if I had the legs, I could play for victory. But from there to do it, to become a winner of stage in the Tour de France and with this jersey... My God, what more could you ask for.”

Team Jumbo-Visma’s Vos finished two seconds behind, closely shadowed by South African Ashleigh Moolman Pasio, Italians Silvia Persico and Elisa Longo Borghini, and Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma.

Vos leads the general classification with a 16-second lead over Valcar’s Persico and Niewiadoma of Canyon.

Annemiek van Vleuten, one of the pre-race favourites, struggled with illness and was dropped on the Mont Bernon climb 4km from the finish. The Olympic time-trial champion managed to rejoin the leading group but again fell away in the closing stages and finished 20 seconds after Ludwig. Van Vleuten, bidding to complete a Giro d’Italia-Tour de France double, said she had barely been able to eat in the last two days.

“Today was actually awesome compared to yesterday, because yesterday I was actually really, really sick,” she told Eurosport. “It started a couple of hours after the first stage, I had a stomach infection... The last thing I was thinking about was racing.”

The Dutchwoman sits ninth in the standings, 74 seconds off the pace set by Vos.

Wednesday’s fourth stage of the eight-stage race, which ends on Sunday, is a 126km ride over steep ramps and unpaved roads from Troyes to Bar-sur-Aube.

Dutch rider Marianne Vos took over the yellow jersey in the Tour de France Femmes with victory in a three-way sprint to win the second stage from Meaux to Provins on Monday.

Team Jumbo-Visma’s Vos edged out Silvia Persico and Katarzyna Niewiadoma in the sprint to claim the yellow jersey from compatriot Lorena Wiebes, who finished 29 seconds behind in sixth place.

“It’s not revenge, it’s an absolutely wonderful day,” said Vos, who finished second behind Wiebes in Sunday’s opening stage on the Champs-Elysees.

Trek-Segafredo’s Elisa Longo Borghini, winner of Paris-Roubaix and a definite contender for the yellow jersey in France, finished fourth in the stage, two seconds back.

Less fortunate was the Italian rider Marta Cavalli, winner this year of the Amstel Gold Race and the Fleche Wallonne, and a contender for the overall title here. The 24-year-old was taken to hospital after suffering a head injury in one of three nasty crashes in a last 30 kilometres where the crosswinds and gusts of up to 45 km/h made the riders jumpy about the prospect of a break in the peloton.

“We don’t have much news from Marta, she is suffering from a head injury,” said team manager Stephen Delcourt on arrival in Provins. “We remain in contact with the doctor. She has been sent to the hospital to carry out a CT scan as a priority.”

Cavalli was already on the ground when she was hit by Australian champion Nicole Frain, who came flying through without braking. The runner-up at this year’s Giro d'Italia, Cavalli climbed back on her bike but failed to finish the stage, with the team pulling her out and sending her to hospital.

“She suffered a big shock. We didn’t want to take any risks,” said Delcourt. “She wanted to carry on but the team said no. We don’t want to play with the lives of our cyclists... We are very worried. You saw the very spectacular crash and how dangerous our sport is. We really have to be careful. I am very worried for the safety of our riders.”

It was a bad day all round for FDJ as Danish rider Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig, their other potential challenger, got caught up in another crash and lost more than a minute to Vos, Longo Borghini, and Niewiadoma.

In addition to Cavalli, another Italian, Gaia Masetti, also gave up, as well as the German Laura Suessemilch, who is undergoing hospital tests for possible fractures, according to her Plantur-Pura team. French rider Maeva Squiban finished the stage but “could not walk” on arrival, according to her team, Stade Rochelais, and went to get an X-ray.

The 35-year-old Vos, one of the great names in cycling with three world road championships and Olympic track gold among her many honors, this yellow jersey has a sense of unfinished business. She won on the Champs-Elysees in 2014 in the first edition of La Course, a race she helped to launch, which took place on the last day of the men’s Tour de France. As a child, she pressed her parents to take her to watch the Tour.

“We were going to Alpe d’Huez, to the sprint finishes, to Pau,” she said again at the start in Meaux on Monday. “That was how we spent our summer holidays, driving the course in our camping van.”

Vos now leads the general classification with a 10-second lead over Valcar rider Persico, with Niewiadoma of Canyon two seconds further back.

Tuesday’s Stage 3 should also suit the sprinters, with a 133.6km ride through the Champagne region from Reims to Epernay.

Lorena Wiebes outsprinted fellow Dutchwoman Marianne Vos to win the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes in Paris on Sunday and pull on the leader’s yellow jersey.

Team DSM rider Wiebes accelerated past Vos of Jumbo-Visma on the Champs-Elysees, with Belgian Lotte Kopecky third after the 81.6km run around Paris starting at the Eiffel Tower.

“The team did an amazing job,” said Wiebes. “It was a really chaotic and long sprint.”

Three-time world champion Vos had attacked early to try to win. But Wiebes was well placed on the final bend to take victory.

“It was really close but luckily I could accelerate one more time and overtake Marianne on the finish line,” added Wiebes. “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.”

At 23-years-old, the DSM sprinter claimed the 52nd success of her career and the 16th of the season.

Monday’s second stage of eight heads east, covering 136.4km between Meaux and Provins.

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Tour de France Femmes: Wiebes wins opening stage in Paris – as it happened

Lorena Wiebes out-sprinted Marianne Vos on the Champs-Élysées to take the yellow jersey at the Tour de France Femmes

• 24 Jul 2022 Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) wins Tour de France Femmes stage one!
• 24 Jul 2022 Femke Markus (Parkhotel Valkenburg) wins the climb and KOM jersey!
• 24 Jul 2022 Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) wins the second intermediate sprint!
• 24 Jul 2022 Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) wins the first intermediate sprint!
• 24 Jul 2022 Preamble

Thanks for reading today. Hope you enjoyed the first stage of the 2022 Tour de France Femmes . You can join *checks notes* me for the 21st and final stage of the men’s race right here:

And here it is:

Jeremy Whittle’s stage one report will be coming right up ...

The Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon–SRAM) tells Eurosport that she thought today’s stage was “surprisingly easy”. “I was expecting it to be harder,” Niewiadoma says. “ I feel like everyone just wanted to feel safe and cautious. There was nothing crazy happening. It was a nice first stage for sure. Maybe I expected like a chaotic race, and hectic, like everyone constantly fighting for position.”

The moment Wiebes won it , via Tour de France Femmes on Twitter:

🇳🇱 @lorenawiebes for the win! Victoire de @lorenawiebes 🇳🇱 sur la plus belle avenue du monde ! #TDFF #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/4bM33Zjq9y — Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 24, 2022

Top five on stage one:

1. Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) 2. Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) 3. Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) 4. Rachele Barbieri (Liv Racing Xstra) 5. Emma Norsgaard Bjerg (Movistar)

Lorena Wiebes has a chat: “It’s amazing, the team did an amazing job, as a team we worked for this moment ... I’m really happy with this win, it was a long sprint, and a hard sprint ... I expected Marianne to do a long sprint, but it’s nice to win.

“I was quite relaxed before the start. We did everything as normal but of course I was quite nervous before the final. It’s amazing [to have yellow]. I’m really happy with this, the whole team deserved this ... it was really close, but luckily I could accelerate one more time to the finish line.”

Adam Blythe on Eurosport thinks Wiebes had slightly smoother tarmac on the left-hand side.

Marianne Vos speaks to Eurosport: “It’s a fast race, a wide road, and it’s more bumpy than you think on television. The team did a perfect job from two laps out, keeping me safe ... and yeah, everything went perfect, but Lorena was in a good position and I couldn’t meet her speed ... I think we did everything right ... when you can’t blame yourself for doing anything wrong, I think we just have to say that Lorena was perfect today, and she had a deserved win.”

The lead-out was hectic , as you’d expect. Vos looked perfectly positioned into the final corner, but then seemed to get a bit isolated. She had two teammates, then one, and decided to go long. That looks like a mistake in hindsight, because Wiebes had a clear run on the left-hand side of the road, and she showed her raw speed and power to come past Vos and take a very impressive stage win. Wiebes will be in yellow tomorrow for stage two. I think had the Jumbo-Visma lead-out been a bit more organised, and Vos had waited to launch her sprint, her acceleration would have won it. But in a long drag race over 300m Wiebes had the superior power.

Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) wins Tour de France Femmes stage one!

What a sprint – and what a win by Wiebes, who olds off Marianne Vos by a bike length or so!

1km to go: Ellen van Dijk (Trek-Segafredo) is on the front!

2.3km to go: Verhulst is caught by the bunch. Movistar Team lead the way.

4km to go: Verhulst is awarded the prix de la combativité (most aggressive rider). And rightly so. Behind her, Vos and Wiebes and their respective teams are fighting for position, among others, including the world champion Elisa Balsamo (Trek-Segafredo).

4.8km to go: The gap is 15”.

5.7km to go: Verhulst’s lead is down to 24secs. There is another crash in the bunch and Amanda Spratt (Team BikeExchange–Jayco) is one of those involved.

6.8km to go: The bunch passes the start/finish line for the final lap and the bell rings out in Paris. It’s already been fast and furious, but the next several kilometres is going to be another level.

8.5km to go: Up front, Verhulst’s lead is 33”. There are thousands of fans cheering on the riders from the roadside.

9km to go: Worryingly, two ambulances are attending to Castrique and they are preparing to put her on a stretcher. Best wishes to her for a speedy recovery.

10km to go: Alana Castrique (Cofidis) has abandoned after crashing heavily.

11km to go: The lead for Verhulst is 35”. It’s a very healthy lead, although she has virtually zero chance of making it stick.

13km to go: It may only be 80km or so, but this has been a draining day in the saddle for the riders to kick off this eight-stage race. Up front, Verhulst is shown speeding over the cobbles, her handlebars vibrating wildly as she negotiates the rough road surface.

15km to go: Gladys Verhulst (Le Col-Wahoo) has grabbed a 26sec lead in front of the peloton with a solo effort. But the sprinters’ teams are massing at the front of the bunch and beginning to fight for position on the road, attempting to take control of this race.

Femke Markus (Parkhotel Valkenburg) wins the climb and KOM jersey!

A fierce three-way fight ends with the Dutch rider nabbing two points in the KOM competition, and guarantees her the polka-dot jersey this evening. The three escapees were only a couple of seconds ahead of the very strung-out peloton, and Markus produced a devastating burst of power to take the prize. 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.

21km to go: Next up will be the solitary categorised climb of the day. A group of three riders, Lach (Ceratizit–WNT), Markus (ParkHotel Valkenburg) and Ysland (Uno-X) go clear!

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) wins the second intermediate sprint!

26km to go: That was a hotly-contested race for the second intermediate sprint point. Kopecky throws her bike at the line and pips Alexandra Manly (BikeExchange-Jayco) and Maria Confalonieri (Ceratizit–WNT) into second and third respectively. Manly must have thought she had that one, having finished third in the first sprint of the day.

1) Kopecky (25pts) 2) Manly (20pts) 3) Confalonieri (17pts) 4) Roseman-Gannon (15pts) 5) Williams (13pts)

27km to go: The moment that the race director Marion Rousse waved the flag and started the Tour de France Femmes 2022.

🚩 The real start has been given, the race is on! 🚩 Le départ réel est donné, la course est lancée ! #TDFF #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/I8wMW8aAUC — Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 24, 2022

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. Allinn manages to latch on to her wheel and they soon have a gap of 17sec.

31km to go: This has been a massive dig from Allin – such an impressive feat to hold the peloton at bay on her own for this amount of time. She still has a lead of 12sec but will doubtless be swallowed up by the bunch before the next sprint point.

34km to go: Allin rolls across the finish line, solo, with an 11sec lead. The commentators on Eurosport are discussing the slightly weird fact that today’s category-four climb is on the Champs-Élysées. Definitely a big-ring climb and one for the more powerful riders rather than the pure climbers ... Maybe Vos can go for the green, the polka-dot and yellow jerseys?

38km to go: Pauline Allin (Arkea) is now off the front. She has a lead of 15sec and she keeps a high cadence and stays in a big gear to try and keep her advantage, taking a peek back down the road to see how far she’s got. Several riders are trying to get across.

41km to go: The top five in that sprint were as follows:

1) Vos (25pts) 2) Wiebes (20pts) 3) Manly (17pts) 4) Kopecky (15pts) 5 Confalonieri (13pts)

So encouraging signs for Jumbo-Visma as they aim for the stage win with Vos, the legendary rider who took Olympic gold in London five days shy of exactly 10 years ago. In around 13km we’ll have the second and final intermediate sprint point.

Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) wins the first intermediate sprint!

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. 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. She shows that trademark acceleration and Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) has no hope of coming past her, but places second. Alexandra Manly (BikeExchange-Jayco) is third.

54km to go: The main bunch rolls over the start/finish line for the fourth time. The two up front are working remarkably well, and have fashioned an advantage of 39sec. The first intermediate sprint will be coming up in a few minutes.

57km to go: The two-rider break of Mischa Bredewold (ParkHotel Valkenburg) and Emily Newsom (EF Education-Tibco-SVB) have a 29sec advantage on the main bunch. A solo rider, Morgane Coston (Arkea) is now trying to bridge across and is about 14sec down.

59km to go: If you are wondering how you can watch this live, 10,000 eight-day passes for the Tour de France Femmes coverage have been made available here . Whether or not they are all gone, I cannot say, but could be worth a try.

63km to go: Urska Zigart (BikeExchange-Jayco) was the lone escapee (according to the official website) but was reeled in and now Mischa Bredewold (ParkHotel Valkenburg) is visible at the front with Emily Newsom (EF Education-Tibco-SVB) in a two-woman break that has 11secs.

66km to go: The average speed is nudging 45km/h so that’s a pace as hot as the Paris weather. When I said the mood was relatively relaxed in the peloton, on reflection, that was off the mark. It’s perhaps a bit less chaotic than we might have expected, but there will be plenty of stress in the bunch. That eight-rider breakaway was reeled in. We have another solo attack.

69km to go: Seven more riders have bridged to Buijsman, and we now have an eight-rider breakaway up the road with a lead of around 10secs over the peloton. Victoire Berteau (Cofidis) is among them.

70km to go: The official Tour de France Femmes Twitter account is @LeTourFemmes – why not give them a follow?

🚴‍♀️ The peloton is heading to the km 0. 🚴‍♀️ Le peloton du #TDFF se dirige vers le départ réel sur les Champs Élysées. #WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com/AiDRy79FLt — Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 24, 2022

71km to go: The Dutchwoman Nina Buijsman (Human Powered Health) has clipped off the front, and impressively managed to distance the entire peloton with her solo attack. She has a lead of about 12secs, I reckon, although there is no live timing on the screen at the moment.

Who do you like for today’s stage win, and the maillot jaune ? You can email me or tweet with your thoughts.

75km to go: One lap completed. Perhaps surprisingly the bunch is all together and while the pace is high, the mood looks relatively relaxed. There were a few attacks on that first lap, but nothing that’s led to breakaway being formed.

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. The riders take a high-speed left-hander adjacent to the river Seine, before tackling the famous underpass for the first time, emerging from the darkness and through another left-hand bend.

81km to go: The peloton is strung out initially, but is now bunched back together and it all calms down. But not for long – there are more attacks before the riders loop around the Arc de Triomphe for the first time.

Predictably enough it’s a boiling hot day in Paris: 33C and sunny, and it will be considerably warmer than that out on the road.

Just a touch over 1km to go until the flag drops ... we’ll surely see a big fight to form a breakaway right from the off. The riders are glued to the back of the official race car ... Marion Rousse waves her flag and we are racing on stage one of the Tour de France Femmes!

Today’s stage consists of 12 laps of a 6.8km circuit in Paris. The intermediate sprints come with 46.9 m and 26.5km to go, so it will be interesting to see if we get a long-established breakaway who mops up points there, or if the bunch stays together and we see shorter-lived attacks from riders hoping to win the green jersey.

The neutralised rollout of 5.2km has just begun.

William Fotheringham looks ahead to the eight-day Tour de France Femmes here:

Since 2014 the Tour de France organisers’ nod to women’s racing was La Course, a one-day event tagged on to the end of the three-week men’s Tour. This year is different and a great leap forward: the Tour de France Femmes is an eight-day stage race which begins today with an 80km circuit race around Paris. It’s by no means the first time a multi-stage women’s Tour de France has been held, but it’s an extremely welcome development considering the ever-increasing demand for women’s racing and the increasing strength and depth in the peloton.

The varied 1,033km route winds its way eastwards from Paris all the way to a summit finish at La Super Planche de Belles Filles next Sunday, crucially showcasing the women’s event as one that richly deserves to stand alone.

Today’s Parisian circuit race is pretty much pan-flat, but two intermediate sprints and one category-four climb inside the final 20km, at Charles de Gaulle - Étoile (9e passage), will spice things up considerably before what will surely be a sprint finish. Some even fancy that Marianne Vos (Jumbo–Visma) might win it and take the yellow jersey.

The riders are about to roll out for the neutralised start. Allez!

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Tour de France Femmes 2022 team guide: Start list, star riders and kits to look out for

Updated 22/07/2022 at 11:56 GMT

Which teams have entered the Tour de France Femmes, who is riding for them and who are the favourites? Can Marianne Vos hoover up more stage wins and can Annemiek van Vleuten grab the yellow jersey after her success at Giro Donne? We look at all of that and more as we preview each and every team ahead of the start of the inaugural eight-stage race in Paris on Sunday.

Annemiek Van Vleuten, Marianne Vos, Juliette Labous, Elisa Balsamo, Marta Cavalli, quelques unes des coureuses phares de ce Tour de France Femmes 2022.

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• Vos and Van Vleuten headline a Tour de France Femmes field packed with talent
• Tour de France Femmes: Stage-by-stage guide as the women hunt yellow

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• Kristen Faulkner
• Alexandra Manly
• Ruby Roseman-Gannon
• Ane Santesteban
• Amanda Spratt
• Urska Zigart

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• Alena Amialiusik
• Elise Chabbey
• Tiffany Cromwell
• Kasia Niewiadoma
• Soraya Paladin
• Pauliena Rooijakkers

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• Letizia Borghesi
• Krista Doebel-Hickok
• Veronica Ewers
• Kathrin Hammes
• Emily Newsom
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• Grace Brown
• Marta Cavalli
• Vittoria Guazzini
• Marie Le Net
• Evita Muzic
• Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig

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• Nina Buijsman
• Henrietta Christie
• Antri Christoforou
• Barbara Malcotti
• Marit Raaijmakers
• Lily Williams

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• Anna Henderson
• Coryn Labecki
• Riejanne Markus
• Noemi Rüegg
• Karlijn Swinkels
• Marianne Vos

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• Rachele Barbieri
• Valerie Demey
• Thalita De Jong
• Jeanne Korevaar
• Silke Smulders
• Sabrina Stultiens
• Aude Biannic
• Sheyla Gutierrez
• Emma Norsgaard
• Paula Andrea Patino
• Arlenis Sierra
• Annemiek van Vleuten

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• Lotte Kopecky
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• Caroline Baur
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• Petra Stiasny
• Olga Zabelinskaya
• Pfeiffer Georgi
• Liane Lippert
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• Juliette Labous
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• Elisa Balsamo
• Audrey Cordon-Ragot
• Elisa Longo Borghini
• Leah Thomas
• Shirin van Anrooij
• Ellen van Dijk

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• Marta Bastianelli
• Sofia Bertizzolo
• Maaike Boogaard
• Eugenia Bujak
• Erica Magnaldi
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• Hannah Ludwig
• Mie Bjorndal Ottestad
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• Pauline Allin
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• Morgane Coston
• Amandine Fouquenet
• Anais Morichon
• Greta Richioud

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• Kathrin Schweinberger
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• Valentine Fortin
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• Sandra Lévénez

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• Nicole Frain
• Femme Gerritse
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• Quinty Schoens
• Anne van Rooijen

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• Yara Kastelijn
• Christina Schweinberger
• Laura Sussemilch

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• India Grangier
• Natalie Grinczer
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Women Will Race In Their Own Tour De France Next Summer

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Annemiek Van Vleuten, left, and Anna Van Der Breggen are among the elite cyclists who are expected to race in next summer's Tour de France Femmes, a one-week race for women. Luc Claessen/Getty Images hide caption

Annemiek Van Vleuten, left, and Anna Van Der Breggen are among the elite cyclists who are expected to race in next summer's Tour de France Femmes, a one-week race for women.

Elite female cyclists will be part of the world's most famous bike race next summer, when the Tour de France will hold a women's stage race for the first time since the 1980s.

Women have been riding the men's route in recent years, urging race officials to include them in cycling's crown jewel. Now they'll get a shot at their own yellow jersey.

"This is a huge moment for professional women's cycling," said pro rider Anna van der Breggen, in a statement about the plans. Noting the Tour's status as a marquee event, she added, "It's long been a dream for many of us to compete in a women's Tour de France."

The Tour de France Femmes will follow the men's race, with riders embarking from the Champs-Élysées in Paris on July 24, 2022. Unlike the La Course by Le Tour de France — a one-day race that the Tour's organizers have put on for women since 2014 — the new event will be a multi-stage race lasting roughly one week.

It's at least the third time a women's event has been associated with the Tour de France. Earlier iterations in the 1950s and 1980s collapsed due to a range of problems, from a lack of sponsorship to clashes with organizers of the men's event.

Both of the earlier races were called the Tour de France Féminin. The '80s event was "two weeks long, really tough, with proper mountain stages," the accomplished British cyclist Emma Pooley said in 2013 .

The Tour de France Femmes is now listed on the official calendar of cycling's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale .

The new women's race is the result of a partnership between the Tour's organizers, the Amaury Sports Organization (ASO), and Zwift — a gaming and interactives company that helped put on a virtual version of the race after it was canceled last summer due to the pandemic.

"I've long been a fan of the attacking style of women's racing," said Eric Min, Zwift CEO. "I really believe the women's peloton puts on some of the most exciting bike racing to watch and it deserves a much bigger platform to exhibit these talents and skills."

Tour de France race director Christian Prudhomme has previously come under scrutiny for comments in which he called women's races "more simple" and said they lose money.

But Kathryn Bertine , a cyclist and writer who helped lead the push for women to participate in the Tour de France, has publicly disagreed with those assertions.

"It's not that the women's Tour de France lost money in the eighties, it's that ASO didn't choose to invest in the women's race," Bertine said in 2018 . "They treated it as a secondary sideshow. While it was very apparent that the fans loved it, ASO didn't include the women's race in the broadcast rights and negotiations. They canceled it instead."

As news spread of the upcoming women's race at the Tour de France, Bertine told NPR, "I am, of course, thrilled at the announcement of a 2022 Women's Tour de France. We've been fighting for — and working toward — this for a long time."

Bertine's petition for a women's Tour garnered nearly 100,000 signatures in support of the proposal, in 2013. It was "a game changer," she says, for women to be included the next year in La Course by Tour de France. But she adds that she'll keep pushing for the women's event to be the same length as the men's.

"At the end of the day, a Women's Tour de France is so much bigger than a bike race. It's a beacon of progress for society that men & women are valued equally at the top," Bertine says. "So yes, I applaud the eight days coming in 2022. I'll be cheering the loudest! And behind the scenes, I'll still keep pushing for two more weeks to be added in the coming years.

"Or, perhaps we can cut the men's race from three weeks to eight days."

Dutch cyclist Annemiek van Vleuten wins Women’s Tour de France 2022

Dutch veteran Annemiek van Vleuten produced the perfect ride on Sunday to win the women's Tour de France with a resounding victory in the eighth and final stage from Lure to La Planche des Belles Filles.

Issued on: 31/07/2022 - 17:47

The 39-year-old Movistar rider, who grabbed the lead with a brilliant solo performance in the mountains on Saturday, bided her time in the peloton before powering up the final climb to seal her triumph.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) finished second to claim second overall with Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) third in the final standings after a fourth place finish on Sunday's stage.

Van Vleuten, a three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia and time-trial gold medallist at the Tokyo Olympics , began the 123-kilometre final stage with a 3min 14sec lead over Vollering which was never in danger in spite of having a mechanical problem with her bike 57kms from the finish which required a quick swap with a teammate. 

The yellow jersey group reeled in the 11-rider breakaway with five kilometres to go at which point van Vleuten climbed out of her saddle and began powering her way up the final crippling climb. 

She crossed the line 30secs ahead of compatriot Vollering to give her a 3min 48sec winning margin over the eight stages. Vollering at least had the consolation of winning the Queen of the Mountains polka dot jersey. 

Valcar rider Silvia Persico of Italy took third on the stage, crossing the line just ahead of Poland 's Niewiadoma.

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• Date: 31 July 2022
• Start time: 14:05
• Avg. speed winner: 34.032 km/h
• Race category: WE - Women Elite
• Distance: 123.3 km
• Points scale: F-2.WWT.Stage
• UCI scale: UCI.WE.WWT.Stage
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• ProfileScore: 226
• Vert. meters: 2466
• Departure: Lure
• Arrival: La Super Planche des Belles Filles
• Race ranking: 1
• Startlist quality score: 1816
• Won how: 6.2 km solo
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STAMFORD, Conn. – July 21, 2022 – Peacock will live stream all eight stages of the 2022 Women’s Tour de France (Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift) beginning this Sunday, July 24 at 7:20 a.m. ET. CNBC will present encore coverage of Stage 1 Sunday at 3 p.m. ET.

Next week, Stages 2-6 will be presented live Monday-Friday at 8:15 a.m. ET each day on Peacock, leading into the final two stages next weekend. The penultimate Stage 7 will be presented next Saturday, July 30 at 9:20 a.m. ET on Peacock, followed by the final stage of the 2022 Women’s Tour de France on Sunday, July 31 at 9:20 a.m. ET live on Peacock and CNBC.

The eight-day Women’s Tour de France will cover 751 miles. Beginning on Sunday, the first stage will begin at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on the same day that the men’s Tour de France concludes with Stage 21 on the Champs Élysées . The event culminates on July 31 with the eighth stage from Lure to Super Planche des Belles Filles.

In March, NBC Sports announced it will be the exclusive home of the Women’s Tour de France (Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift) in the United States.

The richest and most prestigious stage race in women’s cycling, the 2022 Women’s Tour de France (July 24-31) is being held for the for the first time in 33 years after the previous iteration of the race ran annually from 1984-1989.

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The Tour de France finally features women again — after 33 years

After a 33-year hiatus, women have returned to the world’s most-watched sporting event : the Tour de France.

On Sunday, 24 teams of six cyclists each lined up on the Champs-Élysées in Paris to begin the eight-day Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift . 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 official Tour de France only five times. The women’s tour lasted from 1984 to 1989 — and then was canceled because of a lack of financial backing. A women’s one-day race called La Course emerged recently, but some riders have said that it has been more of an insult than an opportunity.

This year, the women’s race was kick-started by sponsor Zwift, a cycling app, and will be one of the highest prize purses — around 250,000 euros in total — in women’s cycling racing history.

“For the women to take the stage, to be elevated through that platform that they deserve, is really the key to unlocking so much more audience, investment and growth in the sport at all levels,” said Kate Veronneau, Zwift’s director of women’s strategy and a former pro-cyclist. “For little girls growing up and seeing themselves in a variety of sports … that’s powerful.”

When U.S. cyclist Marianne Martin won the first women’s Tour de France in 1984 at 26, things looked a lot different for female cyclists. Notably, she had neither salary nor radio. During one stage race in Grenoble, France, she rode ahead of the pack for over 30 miles, she said.

“I didn’t know where they were, so I just pushed ahead, thinking, ‘They’re gonna catch me,’ ” Martin, now 64, recalled. But they never did. The 10 minutes she gained on the peloton during that pivotal stage race, she says, gave her the confidence to win the entire Tour — which was then an 18-stage race covering just over 600 miles.

When Martin was competing, widespread interest in women’s sports was limited. But that world looks different now.

“Women’s sports is trending hard because the companies that have invested in sports are seeing fabulous returns,” Veronneau said. Indeed, as The Washington Post has reported , female athletes are garnering more attention from fans and marketers — which is leading to a belief that women are one of the best investments in the sports industry.

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“Female athletes take their responsibility to be role models extremely seriously because they have to fight for every sponsorship dollar that they have,” Veronneau added. “They know everything they do is going to impact the opportunities that come after them.”

The majority of the 2022 female cyclists riding the Tour are under 35; most have never had the opportunity to watch other women ride this race.

U.S. Human Powered Health team cyclist and Olympic bronze medalist Lily Williams, 28, was inspired to start cycling after watching the men’s Tour de France on TV every summer with her family.

“I think certainly if there had been a women’s Tour de France, I would have started cycling a lot earlier,” Williams said, adding that she only started cycling a couple of years ago. “And I think my career arc would look a lot different.”

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. “A lot of that is probably due to the complete lack of support that women’s sports had back at that time.”

One crucial piece of support is a salary. This is the first year that Williams is riding as a professional cyclist without also having to work. “It’s been huge to have that time to rest and recover. That completely changes the sport when you have 10 or 20 teams of riders who are being paid a living wage,” she said.

But not all female cyclists in the Tour de France receive a salary. Only 14 of the 24 teams competing in the Tour are licensed under the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Women’s WorldTeams Tour, which requires teams to provide a minimum salary of 27,500 euros per year to each rider.

“It’s a very new concept for women professional cyclists to earn a required minimum salary,” Veronneau said. “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. Most often have to work secondary jobs alongside their training of 25 to 30 hours per week.”

Zwift is funding a total prize purse for the women’s race of 250,000 euros, with 50,000 going to the winner. The men’s prize purse is 2.3 million euros, with 500,000 going to the winner. Compared with 1984, this is a 10-fold improvement in the women’s to men’s prize winnings ratio. Martin recalls winning less than $1,000 compared with the $100,000 the 1984 male champion, Laurent Fignon, took home.

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. For now, that means eight stages instead of the 21 stages that men ride. Women’s cycling teams are smaller than men’s, Williams explained, making 21 stages exceptionally more difficult for the women’s teams to commit to from a financial, staffing and physical standpoint.

Williams also says that eight stages with shorter races allows the women’s races to be more dynamic, less predictable, and thus more exciting to watch.

“Every day in the men’s tour, there’s a four-to-six-hour race [in which] a group goes off the front to get media exposure, and then they’re reeled in, and the general classification contenders maintain their position,” she said. “In women’s racing, where races are three to four hours, people are fresher to attack throughout the race; breakaways might have a chance to stick. You have a wide variety of women who could be winning the race.”

Regardless of numbers, riders say the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is a game changer for women’s cycling and will serve as an inspiration for young women and girls worldwide watching the event.

“We need the media to show more women in sports so that girls think about more options,” Martin, the former pro cyclist, said. “I mean, if they only see women in fashion, they’re going to only think about fashion. If they see women in sport, and it’s exciting, they’re going to see that as an option.”

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Tour de France Femmes dates will change in 2024

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A clash with the Paris Olympic Games will force Tour de France Femmes organizers to change the dates of the race in 2024.

That’s according to Tour director Christian Prudhomme , speaking to reporters during an event to promote the Italian start of the 2024 Tour in Tuscany.

Speaking to BiciPro , Prudhomme said the Olympics are forcing changes in both the women’s and men’s editions.

“The [riders] go to the Olympics in the wake of the Tour de France, and so we have to change the date,” Prudhomme told BiciPro .

The official dates of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift are not yet finalized, but those comments are the first official confirmation from ASO that the dates for the 2024 edition will be adjusted to accommodate the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.

The men’s Tour de France is also seeing significant changes due to the Olympic Games, with the Tour’s grand depart set for Italy and the final stages slated for France’s Cote d’Azur, a first in Tour history with the race starting in Italy and not ending in or close to Paris.

The men’s 2024 Tour will run from June 29 to July 19.

Since its successful debut in 2022, the Tour de France Femmes is contested in the week following the men’s edition, running from July 24-31 last summer.

In 2023, the dates are similar -- July 23-30 -- with a start in Clermont-Ferrand and a finish in Pau.

It remains undefined how the 2024 women’s schedule will shake out, and there is talk that the 2024 edition of the Tour de France Femmes might overlap with the men’s race, or that there even could be a larger shakeup of the overall calendar.

The dates of the Tour de France Femmes will have major significance for Olympics-bound athletes.

With the Tour de France Femmes quickly emerging as a season highlight, riders will want to have time to race at a high level, and then have time to recover and prepare for the equally important Olympic Games.

The Olympic Games traditionally kick off with the elite men’s and women’s road races in the opening weekend of the competition in what’s a marquee position for the sport of cycling, but that’s also changing in 2024.

The dates for the Olympic road racing competition are already confirmed, with time trials scheduled ahead of road racing.

The men’s and women’s individual time trials are set for July 27 for an urban course in central Paris. The elite men’s road race is August 3, and the women’s race the next day on August 4, with the finish line at Pont d’Iena in a spectacular setting at the base of the Eifel Tower.

‘Mega worlds’ also triggering calendar changes

There is a similar wrinkle in the racing calendar this summer with the UCI road world championships slated for August as part of the UCI’s “mega worlds” project that includes medal events across 13 cycling disciplines from August 3 to 13.

With the worlds moved up from its traditional date in September to August, the UCI is tweaking the road racing calendar.

To give athletes more time to recover following the Tour de France Femmes, the elite women will race a week after the elite men in world championship competition. Traditionally, women and men have anchored the closing weekend of worlds competition.

For 2023, the elite men will race for the world title on August 6, while the elite women race August 13 in Glasgow.

That split weekend of road racing could have happened in the Olympics, but that is impractical due to the impact of road closures, security, and the overall enormity and complexity of the Olympic Games.

Prudhomme also said the success of the inaugural edition of the Tour de France Femmes is seeing a spike in interest from communities wanting to host stages.

“The candidacy of the cities was incredible. We saw it after the first edition, and it was a resounding success,” Prudhomme said. “We didn’t expect so many people at the roadside. We didn’t expect so many people in front of the television. But we must continue. We have to go further.

“When we relaunched the Tour de France Femme avec Zwift, we said to ourselves that we wanted to create a long-lasting event, which would still be alive in 50 years, like the Giro, like the Tour,” he said. “There were many duels between Jeannie Longo and Maria Canins in the 80s: they existed, they were real. Only unfortunately, for economic reasons, the races stopped and all subsequent events in France eventually all stopped for economic reasons.

“So we wanted a balanced event the first year. An event that had an impact for the future. But for it to be, the economic aspect is obviously fundamental.”

Prudhomme also spoke on some key points, including:

On why it took so long for the Tour to host its first “grand depart” in Italy:

“It would have been a huge inconsistency if the Tour had not started from Italy. In fact, I wonder why it hasn’t happened sooner. Ten years ago there was the occasion of Florence. We reluctantly rejected that candidacy, because the year before an Englishman, Bradley Wiggins, had won the Tour and so we set off from London. Italy is beauty. Cycling and the Tour unite. This thing had to happen and, for me, it is an honor. It is an honor to pass through the lands of Bartali, Pantani, and Coppi.”

On ASO’s move to build out its Tour de France-labeled cycling portfolio beyond competitive racing:

“We always have plans. Obviously, everything revolves around the Tour de France. I mentioned earlier the link between everyday cycling and the cycling of champions, the cycling of amateurs ... every aspect is an important development element for us. You were talking about professional races, but today we have almost 30 certified cycling events. We have events in Australia, in Mexico, in Canada, in the United States, all over the world. The “Etape du Tour” alone sees 16,000 people at the start. We are developing this model alongside pro races in 25 other countries.

“We want to encourage people to practice cycling and we want to do it under the Tour de France label. Because this is where people get into cycling and it is promoted all over the world. Beyond the competition, the bicycle is something very, very important in our world today. The bicycle is the link between mobility, the everyday bike, and the bicycle of champions. We want to intensify this bond.”

Why the Tour de France remains so important to professional teams:

“The three weeks of the Tour de France account for around 57 percent of the global economic fallout of a year of cycling. So it’s obviously a capital for the teams. Thanks to this impact during the three weeks, the teams can get people talking, they can show off, and thus they can find sponsors for the following years, they can plan. It goes without saying that this is important for the teams, but it is also important for us.”

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After Annemiek van Vleuten's retirement is Demi Vollering an inevitable victor or will a new challenger rise?

It is time for the first Grand Tour of the season and a look at just who within the women’s peloton could step into the red jersey of the overall race leader at La Vuelta Femenina .

The Spanish race, which has been upping the ante in recent seasons – transforming from a one-day race into a tour across eight stages – has lost its three-time champion Annemiek van Vleuten . The retirement of the rider who had previously dominated means a new group of potential victors will be clamouring to make a mark, particularly those forced to stand on the lower steps right through the period where the race has included terrain that leans toward climbing strength.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), as Tour de France Femmes victor and the rider who also came close to unseating Van Vleuten in Spain in 2023, is the most obvious choice as race favourite but given she hasn’t had the same form on the run in this season will give her rivals a reason for hope.

Of course, those rivals will include a couple of strong options from Lidl-Trek to carry on with the season's trend. The 2022 runner-up Elisa Longo Borghini is firing, having claimed three wins already this season, including the Tour of Flanders, and has visited the podium seven times. The Italian champion could also have Gaia Realini by her side, delivering the team strength card that Lidl-Trek seems to play so well. Canyon-SRAM, too look set to line up with a formidable combination of riders, which could well help an in-form Kasia Niewiadoma become increasingly accustomed to the taste of victory.

There are plenty of other riders among those who are expected to line up – although confirmed start lists are yet to be released – who could also challenge for overall victory at the April 28 to May 5 event. 

Cyclingnews takes a closer look at some of the riders to watch as the battle for red unfolds from the team trial through the Pyrenees to a showdown in the Sierras of Madrid. 

Join Cyclingnews for coverage of the  2024 La Vuelta Femenina , and check in after each race for our full report, results, gallery, news and features.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime)

Demi Vollering may not have gone into last year's La Vuelta Femenina with a GC mindset, but she soon acquired one after stepping into the red jersey after the first summit finish on stage 4. After losing the lead position on stage 6, partly due to an ill-timed nature break and crosswinds, revenge was on her mind. She took it in the form of victory on the final stage at Lagos de Covadonga, but while that effort may have meant the SD Worx clawed back a significant portion of the gap in the final stage, she still fell nine seconds short of the ultimate prize, the red jersey. This edition, however, is the chance to change that.

To add to that sense of unfinished business is an early season, which has been peppered with podiums, but perhaps not the step on them she was hoping for. Vollering came into La Vuelta Femenina on a tearing run last year, having already swept up five victories for the year, including Strade Bianche and all of the Ardennes Classics. This year she is yet to claim a victory, although that will likely change in the coming days.

The toughening of the route should play into Vollering's hands, with the addition of a third summit finish bound to be a boon for the rider who won both in last year's edition. Plus, even though her main rival may be out of the picture, there will be plenty of obstacles along the way to the stage 8 finish line at the top of the Valdesquí, with a number of old rivals and rising talents lining up and a big target on Vollering's back as the rider to beat.

Elisa Longo Borghini and Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek)

Lidl-Trek are once again lining up with an enviable mix of experience, new talent and a track-record as a team that knows how to pull together to win races. The Ardennes may not have gone exactly to plan, but as they move from the icy cold conditions to the more temperate climes of Spain, they have a team that has every chance of slotting right back into winning ways. 

After a tough 2023, a rejuvenated Elisa Longo Borghini is leading the team's victory charge so far in 2024, and La Vuelta Femenina offers the chance to reignite the embers. 

The Italian champion has stood on the overall podium of both the Giro d'Italia Women and La Vuelta Femenina, with second in both 2020 and 2022 in Spain. This year could be her chance to finally make it to that top step, especially given the consistency she has shown so far this season, where she has rarely deviated from the top few spots on the results sheet. What's more, Longo Borghini is expected to be lining up in a squad that also includes the 22-year-old Gaia Realini. On her debut at the Vuelta last year stood on the third step of the podium alongside Vollering and Van Vleuten after climbing up the ranks by delivering an impressive effort on the final stage, taking second as the only rider who was even close to being able to keep pace with Vollering.

The two-pronged attack from two former podium placers may be just what the team needs to make it to that top step.

Kasia Niewiadoma and Ricarda Bauernfeind (Canyon-SRAM)

Last year's edition of the Vuelta was the race where Ricarda Bauernfeind gave notice of just what she was capable of, coming fifth overall just months into her first season in the Canyon-SRAM WorldTour team after having made the jump from the development squad. The German rider then quickly consolidated her position as a rider to watch by taking victory on stage 5 of the Tour de France Femmes and finishing ninth overall. What's more, she has shown remarkable consistency in stage races, also finding the top ten last year at the Tour de Romandie Féminin and Tour of Scandinavia. 

The 24-year-old alone is worthy of note as a rider who could be in with a podium chance in Spain, but this year she will also be joined by Kasia Niewiadoma at La Vuelta Femenina, delivering a formidable pairing for the race to spearhead the Canyon-SRAM charge. 

Niewiadoma is on top, clearly in form and fresh from that much sought after win at La Flèche Wallonne Femmes. That provided the best of lead in indications for a rider that, even when things aren't running so smoothly, doesn't seem to know how to deliver a bad GC result across the top Spanish, French and Italian tours. The rider from Poland has two podiums at the Tour de France Femmes, a second at the Giro d'Italia Women and 11 results within the top seven overall across her 12 participations at the three events. Niewiadoma doesn't have a podium at the Vuelta on her palmarès yet but with a powerful squad behind her – which also includes Neve Bradbury as a climbing asset – no step seems out of reach for her at this year's eight-stage race.

Mavi García (Liv-AlUla-Jayco)

Mavi García has been in the top ten of this race and the Tour de France Femmes and also found her way onto the podium of Giro d'Italia Women in 2022. There are also a number of reasons to think that the Spanish rider could level up at this edition of the race. 

For a start, the toughening parcours mean there are more days suited to the 40-year-old who this year made the shift to Liv-AlUla-Jayco with hopes of a resurgence. The UAE Tour was a good sign, with the rider coming third overall. Add to that, the rider said she has "been feeling better than I did last year and, at this stage, I think I can do well in this race." That means a podium target doesn't seem unreasonable, particularly given the first stage should help her along the way. 

Last year, the Australian-based squad perhaps didn't perform as well as they would have hoped in the team time trial, with one of their expected powerhouses, Georgie Howe, crashing early, but in eighth they were still two places ahead of García's old Liv Racing TeqFind team and will hope for more at this year's flat and fast time trial.

To start the Vuelta with an advantage could go a long way to help the Garcia continue into the mountains on the front foot.

Juliette Labous (dsm-firmenich-PostNL)

In the last three years, Juliette Labous has been in the top ten in every edition of La Vuelta Femenina, Giro d'Italia Women and Tour de France Femmes she has completed. 

Last year, she also finally broke through to the podium in Italy, taking second behind a dominant Annemiek van Vleuten. With that step up to a new level at the Giro, she'll now be aiming to do the same at the Vuelta, where she finished seventh last year. 

"I have done a three-week altitude simulation camp over the last month, and I felt really good in training and recently in the races," said Labous. "We’ve worked a lot to improve my GC abilities, so I want to aim for a podium, and we will do everything we can to achieve that goal." It won't be the only ambition for the team, with Charlotte Kool on board for the sprints; however, 19-year-old Nienke Vinke, who finished second at the Tour Down Under in January, could prove a handy ally on the climbs as she debuts at the race.

Riejanne Markus (Visma-Lease a Bike)

It's hard not to fade into the background at a squad that includes Marianne Vos, but Riejanne Markus is one of those riders who can sway the spotlight from time to time. 

The 29-year-old Dutch climber was actually just one spot off the podium at the 2023 edition of La Vuelta Femenina, knocked off the steps on the last stage by the impressive efforts on the final climb of Gaia Realini. 

Markus is a rider who, like García, will be hoping to start with an advantage given her team took the top spot at the opening team time trial last year. The addition of another climbing stage, however, may make it a little harder to chase the podium again given that while she may have fared reasonably on the summit finishes in the past, finishing seventh on both last year's mountain top finales, but they still provide an opportunity for the pure climbers to leapfrog the Dutch rider.

Ashleigh Moolman Pasio and Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)

AG Insurance-Soudal is heading into the Vuelta with an exciting mix of experience and rising talent this year – Ashleigh Moolman Pasio has the proven Grand Tour record, while Sarah Gigante has the promise.

The 23-year-old Australian started the new season with her new team in ideal fashion, claiming the top step of the overall podium at the Tour Down Under with a spectacular victory on Willunga Hill. 

Now it's finally time to learn the ropes of the longer stage races, with a long-awaited debut at the Spanish race after years where injury, health and circumstance have curtailed her European racing. 

Learning at the side of a rider who has taken second in the women's Giro d'Italia twice and also last year delivered sixth at the Tour de France Femmes in 2023 could provide not only a valuable stepping stone for Gigante but also a valuable ally for the seasoned South African.

Honorable mentions

• Évita Muzic (FDJ-SUEZ) came sixth in Spain last year and with a strong lead in, which included a fourth at La Flèche Wallonne, she looks to have every chance of delivering a powerful showing again in 2024.
• With defending champion Van Vleuten out, Liane Lippert – who came fourth at the race in 2022 – is an obvious replacement contender for Movistar but her form is a huge unknown given she is just returning from injury to start the season. Also look out for teammate Olivia Baril who has a mounting list of stage race top ten finishes.
• Ane Santesteban moved to Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi at the start of this season to help build the Spanish squad and it's hard to go beyond success at the home tour to get momentum rolling. The climber who finished sixth at the race in 2022 will have every incentive to go all out.

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Simone is a degree-qualified journalist that has accumulated decades of wide-ranging experience while working across a variety of leading media organisations. She joined Cyclingnews as a Production Editor at the start of the 2021 season and has now moved into the role of Australia Editor. Previously she worked as a freelance writer, Australian Editor at Ella CyclingTips and as a correspondent for Reuters and Bloomberg . Cycling was initially purely a leisure pursuit for Simone, who started out as a business journalist, but in 2015 her career focus also shifted to the sport.

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