Tour de France Femmes Stage 7 Reside – Battle on the Tourmalet

All eyes can be on how the World Champion, Van Vleuten goes right this moment. She was extremely dominant finally 12 months’s Tour de France Femmes, however Vollering has seemingly closed the hole since them. 

She’s been the very best GC rider of a technology and can need to make an enormous step in the direction of finishing the Grand Tour triple right this moment after already profitable the Vuelta and Giro in 2023. 

It is the sixth and, must be, ultimate day for Kopecky in yellow who can be working all day for Vollering’s GC marketing campaign. She’ll be one of many ultimate domestiques for the Dutch famous person alongside Marlen Reusser. 

Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) was top-of-the-line climbers behind Van Vleuten and Vollering finally 12 months’s race, and hid no secrets and techniques on the rostrum as she said the tactic was easy right this moment: “To comply with Annemiek [van Vleuten] and Demi [Vollering].”

Beautiful reception for Juliette Labous (DSM-Firmenich) on stage from the French crowds. The younger French climber was fourth general within the 2020 Tour de France Femmes and must be one of many protagonists of the day on the lengthy climbs. 

The riders are finishing sign-ons and the crew presentation forward of the neutralised roll out from Lannemezan at 16:15 CEST. 

This is a take a look at the profile for the queen stage which reveals the 2 brutal climbs that may resolve the day after 89.8km of racing. 

Ensure you learn Simone Giuliani’s nice function on the legendary climb that has featured extra within the males’s Tour de France than some other mountain go. As we speak it performs host to, hopefully, a battle for the ages between the very best climbers within the ladies’s professional peloton. 

Col du Tourmalet: The crowning climb of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes

Veronica Ewers (EF Schooling-TIBCO-SVB) additionally will not begin the queen stage after she was confirmed to have damaged her collarbone in a crash yesterday, regardless of ending the stage with that harm. 

The American would’ve featured closely on right this moment’s mountain stage that suited her, so it is a huge disgrace to see her unable to proceed. 

This is a take a look at the GC standings earlier than they’re modified considerably after stage 7. It must be the ultimate day in yellow for Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx), with the GC favourites beneath her in second to sixth place separated by simply 14 seconds. 

There’s been some unlucky information this morning as Elisa Longo Borghini has been compelled to desert the race forward of the queen stage as a result of being in a ‘appreciable quantity of ache’ on account of a pores and skin an infection on the high of her thigh. Her teammate and former World Champion, Elisa Balsamo has additionally left the race due to fatigue. 

As we speak’s stage is among the most anticipated days of ladies’s racing in latest reminiscence. It begins in Lannemezan and finishes atop the fabled Col du Tourmalet. The Tourmalet is utilized in tandem with the Col d’Aspin and collectively they need to present the proper enviornment for the well-poised GC battle to blow up. 

Hi there and welcome to Cyclingnews’ dwell protection of stage 7 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes!