Tour Femmes '25, Stage 9: Leaving No Doubt

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike) left no doubt as to who should have won the fourth Tour de France Femmes when she finished in Chatel.  She had dropped everyone taking the stage with twenty seconds over Demi Vollering who will take the second step of the podium for the second time in a row.  The defending champion, Katarzyna Niewiadoma, came in six seconds after Demi, taking third on the stage and the race.  Those two have been on every podium of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.  With this win she becomes the first from France to win a Tour de France either male or female since the late 1980s.  Chapeau to the Olympic Gold medalist in the women's mountain bike race, almost exactly a year ago!

This is a small 4x6 inch original watercolor painting that is available through my website at greigleach.com or you can simply follow the direct link at the end of the post to purchase the painting above. Since it is an original work of art, it is a first come first served reality. The work sells for $99 USD including shipping, but, yes, international shipping is both available and extra.

"Leaving No Doubt TdFF25-59" (Original art by Greig Leach)

Tour '25, Stage 21: In the Bag

I spent quite a bit of time being frustrated with the race cameramen today.  They missed so many visuals, particularly as the peloton rode through the Louvre and at both the intermediate sprint and the finish of the stage.  There wasn't a good image of Wout Van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike) winning solo on the Champs Elysees.  He has won there before, but that was a tradition mass sprint on dry roads.  Today, he was set up by his teammates and attacked on the final climb up to Montmartre dropping all of his breakaway companions including the Maillot Jaune - Tadej Pogacar!  He flew down the other side to win the stage by nineteen seconds somehow managing to stay upright on the rain-soaked roads of downtown Paris.  Pogacar came home for fourth on the stage, but he had already won the Tour.  He made the race just that much more exciting by actually racing to win the final stage of the 112th Tour de France.  By the way, Van Aert's teammate, Matteo Jorgenson came in fifth twenty-six seconds later.

This is my final painting of the Tour de France.  But I am still painting the Tour de France Femmes.  They will be racing for seven more stages so be sure to check back for all of the Women's ProTour cycling excitement and artwork.

This is a small 4x6 inch original watercolor painting that is available through my website at greigleach.com or you can simply follow the direct link at the end of the post to purchase the painting above. Since it is an original work of art, it is a first come first served reality. The work sells for $99 USD including shipping, but, yes, international shipping is both available and extra. 

"In the Bag TdF25-144" (Original art by Greig Leach)

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Women's Tour Down Under '25, Stage 3: A Sterling Sprint

I couldn't resist the pun for the title of this painting.  First off, it was truly a sterling solo attack that carried Chloe Dygert (Canyon/SRAM-Zondacrypto) to the stage victory in Stirling.  But I had to go for the play with the name of the town that the peloton began and ended the final stage of the 25th Women's Tour Down Under, Stirling.  Dygert was chased by the woman sitting second in the general classification, Silke Smulders (Liv-Alula-Jayco), but showed a clean set of wheels by the time she crossed the line.  Smulders was hoping to score enough bonus seconds and real seconds to take over the Ochre Jersey, but it didn't quite work out.  She did pull within thirteen seconds of the Tour Down Under Victory but will have to content herself with second place.

This is a small 4x6 inch original watercolor painting that is available through my website at greigleach.com or you can simply follow the direct link at the end of the post to purchase the painting above. Since it is an original work of art, it is a first come first served reality. The work sells for $95 USD including shipping, but, yes, international shipping is both available and extra.

"A Sterling Sprint TDU25-15" (Original art by Greig Leach)