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Across nine stages from Lausanne to Nice, the Tour de France Femmes can change quickly through crashes, illness and the accumulated strain of a compact route. With little recovery time between sprint finales, hilly stages, the Dijon time trial and the decisive mountain tests, one incident can remove...

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With only nine stages at the Tour de France Femmes, a relegation, time penalty or yellow card can carry consequences far beyond the immediate result. Sprint deviations, sticky bottles, feeding breaches and littering offences can all affect stage placings, jersey battles and the shape of a riders ra...

The route of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes has been announced this morning in Paris, and it features a very difficult route that differs quite a lot from this year's. Taking place from Saturday, 1 August to Sunday, 9 August 2026, the time trials are back at this year's edition, and we will have a m...

If stage fours time trial wasnt the death knell of Pauline Ferrand-Prvots Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift bid, then Wednesday's fifth stage to Belleville-en-Beaujolais almost certainly was. Dropped on the penultimate climb with around 30km to go, the defending champion ended up shipping more than two and a half minutes to her GC rivals Marlen Reusser (Movistar), Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-Sram), and the stage winner Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez). The damage, compounded by the 2:13 she lost in the time trial, means she now sits exactly five minutes adrift of Reusser in the yellow jersey. Its a mountain even she will find hard to climb. The first question Ferrand-Prvot faced back at her Visma-Lease a Bike team bus was the obvious one: Is the GC now over for her? I have to be honest, yes, she said. I mean, I haven't seen the gaps yet, but yeah, I think its over. Now we have to refocus, change the plan maybe. We have to make a new plan. It was testament to Ferrand-Prvots professionalism that, on the day she likely lost the Tour, she held herself with grace and composure. I did my best, she smiled to each of her team-mates as they came to console her after the stage. In between hugs, she took off her gloves and handed them to a little boy in a PSG football kit.Pauline, tu es la meilleure, one fan shouted Pauline, youre the best. She then took the time to give autographs to anyone who asked for one, even stopping to compose a selfie with a family to make sure all three of the children were in the frame. I cant say Im sad or disappointed, because I didnt feel bad today, she said. To be honest, I felt quite good.It was on the steep Col de Durbize, the category-two kicker where Vollering attacked, that Ferrand-Prvot fell out of contention. Until the climb, I felt good, she said. And on the climb, I was still feeling good, but I was just not strong enough to follow. They were just stronger today. A loud gasp filled the press room when the TV screens showed the moment Ferrand-Prvot was dropped. Journalists halted their typing and watched as the gap quickly ballooned. Within 4km, it was 40 seconds. Even with the help of her Visma team-mate Sarah Van Dam, Ferrand-Prvot couldn't close the distance to the front trio, and the time continued to grow. At one point, it looked like it might tip over three minutes. I didnt really look at the gap, Ferrand-Prvot said. I just said, Ok, Ill just fight until the end and we will see. Theres nothing I can do more than pushing on the pedals as much as possible.The number that mattered in the end was five minutes the gap to the yellow jersey. Five minutes is... oof, Reusser, the race leader, said in her press conference. I mean, you never say never, but to get five minutes back is hard. I wouldnt wish for me to have to go for five minutes now. Ferrand-Prvots sports director Rutger Thijssen was more optimistic. I think anything can happen, he said. We know in high performance sports that the dice can tumble, which can happen in two or three days. In short, its difficult, but I wont say that its directly over. Ferrand-Prvot, the runaway winner by almost four minutes last year, now sits 17th overall, with four stages remaining. Her team-mate Femke de Vries is eighth, 3:11 behind Reusser.Maybe now I will have the chance to go for a stage win, Ferrand-Prvot said. We have to discuss with the team, but if I cannot help Femke to have the best result possible, I will do it. Many expected we would see the defending champion on the attack on Mont Ventoux on Friday. That scene may still happen yet, but the circumstances have now changed. Barring a miraculous comeback, Ferrand-Prvot will not win this Tour de France Femmes. Because I won last year, now I say, Ok, it will not change my life to win it again', she had said ahead of the race. On Wednesday in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, she already seemed at peace with that prospect.

Demi Vollering has conquered the fifth stage of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, a day where FDJ - Suez took initiative to attack the race, and brought in the benefits from it. FDJ - Suez had depth during today's stage and that proved to be valuable. The breakaway of the day included plenty top ride...

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After claiming an expected victory in Stage 4's individual time trial, world time trial champion Marlen Reusser (Movistar) arrived at Stage 5 in yellow to face the first real climbing test of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. While Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) eventually won the three-up battle at the line, Reusser left Belleville-en-Beaujolais not just still in yellow, but looking like a genuine contender to wear it all the way to Nice.On a stage where former Tour winners Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM) repeatedly attacked one another, Reusser never looked rattled.Instead, the Swiss rider raced with patience.While her two biggest rivals traded accelerations in an attempt to crack each other, Reusser measured her efforts, stayed glued to the decisive moves and, in a move that could prove invaluable later in the week, even sprinted for bonus seconds at the final Queen of the Mountain. It was clever racing in a Tour that in 2024 came down to a measly four seconds between Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney. By the finish in Belleville-en-Beaujolais, Reusser had not only matched the race's two most recent champions on the climbs but extended her overall lead, ending the day 12 seconds ahead of Vollering in the General Classification and 1:17 ahead of Niewiadoma-Phinney.I'm happy. I hoped for this, Reusser said in the post-race press conference. I really felt good the last days, and I also was thinking that this is possible, but always, you don't know before really.If there was one blemish on an otherwise near-perfect day, it came in the final few hundred metres. In the finishing straight, Niewiadoma jumped early. Vollering and Reusser initially looked at one another, baiting the other to go. It was Vollering who closed the gap to Niewiadoma-Phinney, putting Reusser in an advantageous position. "Kasia went, then Demi went behind her, and I was like, 'Yeah, that's perfect'," Reusser said.But as the three riders came back together before the sprint, Reusser briefly touched her brakes, losing the momentum she needed to contest the stage win."My momentum was gone. I was asleep. I don't know what I did," she lamented. "I'm really annoyed with myself. This is a bit sad. It's a tour stage win. I don't say that I would have won, but I just did the opposite of winning."Still, Reusser was quick to put her disappointment into perspective."I should beand I amsuper happy about the day and that I'm in yellow still."Any frustrations aside, Reusser applauded the aggression of both of her rivals."I think Demi was brave. She kept trying. You need courage to do that."Of Niewiadoma-Phinney's attack, she added: "She really took it in the hands. I think she had a good shot there."Vollering, who was teammates with Reusser at SD Worx for three seasons between 2021 and 2023, returned the respect.Asked whether the Movistar rider could go on to win the Tour de France Femmes, the Dutchwoman answered without hesitation: "Yeah, for sure. For her it looks very bright now."But Vollering pointed out that both she and Niewiadoma-Phinney have already won the Tour, while Reusser is still chasing the biggest victory of her career."Marlen is the one who never managed to win a Tour yet, so she has to work for it as well."But she also acknowledged just how formidable her former teammate is."I'm sure it will be a hard battle because she's not a rider who you can beat easily because she's very strong, Vollering said.But, of course, I will try everything to do that."Can Reusser hang in the Alps?(Image credit: Getty Images)Stage 5 answered one of the biggest questions surrounding Reusser's Tour ambitions: could the world time trial champion climb with recent Tour winners Vollering, Niewiadoma-Phinney and Ferrand-Prvot?On Wednesday's undulating stage, the answer was a definite yes.Ferrand-Prvot, however, may have seen her GC ambitions all but disappear. The Visma-Lease a Bike rider was dropped on the day's final climb and conceded 2:35 to the leading trio, leaving her almost five minutes behind Reusser in the general classification.Reusser was reluctant to rule the Frenchwoman out completely, but admitted the gap would be difficult to claw back."Five minutes is... I mean, you never say never, but to get five minutes back is hard," she said. "I wouldn't wish for me to have to go for five minutes now somewhere."That "somewhere" will come quickly.Thursday's hilly Stage 6 offers little respite before the race reaches its biggest test: Friday's summit finish atop the legendary Mont Ventoux.Reusser shared that she visited Ventoux ahead of the Tour, and it was the descent, not the climb, that left the biggest impression."I was almost crying, so afraid I was, because there were gusts," she said.Despite that, Reusser believes the mountain itself may actually suit her better than Stage 5's relentless succession of shorter climbs."If I could choose a hard day, I would choose more the Ventoux than today, she stated.Still, the Swiss rider remains characteristically measured.She insisted Wednesday's performance hadn't suddenly made her more confident. Instead, she sees every mountain stage as another unknown, where even the strongest riders can have an unexpectedly good, or unexpectedly bad, day."You go into a race and you don't know yourself how you're going to feel that day," she said. "You have the same questions yourself."