Tour Femmes '26, Stage 4 ITT: Speeding into Dijon

Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez) was making an incredibly fast descent back into Dijon chasing her chance for the stage, and to be the next wearer of the Maillot Jaune.  She was the second to last woman to start the time trial so she had the time splits she needed to better.  She finished the stage in third, which was enough to move her into second place in the general classification just fourteen seconds off the lead.  With the time splits in the top ten means that everyone will have to race every stage rather than waiting to the big mountain top finish up Mont Ventoux on Friday.

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Tour Femmes '26, Stage 4 ITT: Sprinting for Seconds

As Marlen Reusser (Movistar) came up the finishing straight she came up out of the saddle to sprint to the line in hopes of taking the stage in the discipline that she is the World Champion of.  It worked she finished just four seconds ahead of the woman who had been in the hot seat for most of the day, Leike Nooijen (Visma-Lease a Bike).  But she did more than win the stage, she is the new Maillot Jaune, the leader of the Tour de France Femmes.  And that she holds by fourteen seconds over the woman she out rode by seventeen seconds.  

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Tour '24, Stage 6: Winning a Close One

A brilliant sprint that was much closer than this makes it look.  Dylan Groenewegen (Jayco-Alula) managed to just hold off a fast closing Jasper Philipsen (Alpecin-Deceuninck) to take stage 6 in Dijon.  Apparently, Philipsen has the legs for the intermediate sprint but couldn't quite get the win today.  It was Biniam Girmay (Intermache-Wanty) took third on the day adding to her lead in the sprinter's race for the Maillot Vert.  I do believe that makes the sixth team, and the sixth person to win a stage of the Tour, in six stages.

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"Winning a Close One TdF24-32" (Original art by Greig Leach)