Tour Femmes '26, Stage 7: Her First Was Huge!

It is surprising that this is the first time Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon/SRAM) has won a stage of the Tour de France Femmes.  Don't get me wrong, she has won the race two years ago, but this is the first time she has won an individual stage.  She picked a big one to win, and she won it big.  She was a minute and sixteen seconds ahead of Demi Vollering at the summit and it was a further half of a minute to the erstwhile Maillot Jaune, Marlen Reusser.  I say erstwhile because of this ride, Kiewiadoma is the new leader of the Tour de France Femmes with just two more stages to race.  It isn't like they are easy stages either, and she only has fifteen seconds over Vollering who remains in second place both on the stage and the general classification.  It is clear to me that this race will go all of the way to the final kilometer on the coastline of Nice.

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Tour de France 23, Stage 5: Definitely the Stage, Maybe Yellow

Clearly Jai Hindley (Bora-Hansgrohe) had come alone to the line in Laruns, celebrating as he cross the line.  Now he had to wait to see just how much ground Jonas Vingegaard had gained on him from the summit of the final climb of the day.  Only when the leader of Jumbo-Visma came in 34 seconds later did Hindley know that he is now the leader of the Tour.  Thanks to the eight second time bonus at the top of the climb and another ten seconds for winning the stage, he has a forty-seven second lead over the defending champion of the Tour.  Pogacar now sits a minute and forty seconds back (fifty-three seconds behind his main rival.)  These placings set the stage for a very aggressive stage 6 tomorrow.  The Cat 1 climb to the finish line while only tighten the screws on all of the hopefuls.

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