Tour Femmes '26, Stage 9: Escorting Their Leader

Marlen Reusser (Movistar) has had a rough end of the Tour de France Femmes this year.  Since losing her Maillot Jaune on the climb up to the summit of Mont Ventoux, she has been slowly losing time in the general classification.  Today, on her second descent of Col d'Eze she crashed on a corner coming out of one of the many tunnels on today's course.  She took some time getting back on her bike, but she did. She was with one of her teammates when she crashed but more joined her as they made their way back down into Nice.  She was escorted by back into town by Francesca Barale, Ana Vitoria Magalhaes, Liane Lippert and Paula Ostiz.  She could have easily climbed off her bike once back to the start/finish line, but no, she and her team did the two remaining laps together.  They all came in twenty-five minutes after the stage winner, but she certainly earned even more respect today.  And she paid respect to the Tour de France Femmes as well.

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Tour Femmes '25, Stage 4: Just a Bump in the Road

After having gotten away from both the peloton and the lone leader, this duo of Franziska Koch (Picnic-PostNL) and Ana Vitoria Magalhaes (Movistar) pressed on.  As they went over the lone categorized climb of the Cote de Marigny they still had about a minute and a half on the now chasing peloton.  With thirty kilometers left to go, it wasn't looking real likely that they will be able to outsmart the peloton.  The cote was only a category four so compared to the climbs to come at the end of the week, this was merely a bump in the road.  That didn't stop hundreds of fans to line both sides of the road to cheer them all up and over the climb.

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"Just a Bump in the Road TdFF25-20" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Tour Femmes '25, Stage 4: Flying Across the Gap

Franziska Koch (Picnic-PostNL) joined up with the Brazilian Ana Vitoria Magalhaes (Movistar) as they left the peloton and chased done the lone leader, Maud Rijnbeek.  They didn't hang around, immediately dropping the Dutch woman as they went off it hopes of beating the odds.  They had another seventy-eight kilometers to race, so it would be a long effort, and a long shot, to vie for stage victory.  Since their team cars couldn't get through the tightly packed peloton, they were being looked after by the Shimano neutral service moto.  

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"Flying Across the Gap TdFF25-19" (Original art by Greig Leach)