Tour de France Femmes stage 8 Stay: The ultimate race towards the clock

This is how the top-10 on GC seems to be forward of the beginning. Vollering’s lead ought to be insurmountable barring any catastrophe, however the struggle for the rostrum ought to be very attention-grabbing with Niewiadoma in second and Moolman in fifth separated solely by 49 seconds. Kopecky may even be determined to get on the rostrum after the climbing efficiency of her life yesterday. 

Fairly the again wheel for St Michel-Mavic-Auber93. 

There was one other DNS this morning with Mavi Garcia (Liv Racing TeqFind) unable to start out the stage on account of sickness. Full listing of abandons under.

Tour de France Femmes abandons – A tally of the riders leaving the race

SD Worx getting a have a look at the course. They will have three choices for the stage win at present in Reusser, Kopecky and Vollering. The latter might play it protected because the race chief which can hinder her probabilities on the stage victory, whereas Reusser is the perfect lively TT rider on this planet (with Ellen van Dijk not racing on account of her being pregnant) and ought to be going all out by way of energy and thru the corners to attempt to win the stage.

It is stopped for now, however the rain had been falling fairly closely in Pau forward of the beginning, so the course could also be damp in locations. 

Just below 40 minutes till Marjolein van’t Geloof (Human Powered Well being) rolls off the beginning ramp and will get racing underway on stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes. 

There was some crucial pores and skin go well with fittings occurring for the 4 jersey wearers late final night time, Vollering in yellow, Niewiadoma in polka-dots, Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) in inexperienced and Cédrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit-WNT) in white. 

Ensure to take a look at when every rider shall be beginning under for the ultimate time trial, with the favourites in GC all setting off on the finish of proceedings. 

Tour de France Femmes stage 8 time trial begin occasions

Yesterday’s queen stage noticed Demi Vollering (SD Worx) transfer right into a commanding lead of the general GC after she destroyed the sector up the Col du Tourmalet. It was an emphatic efficiency that sees her begin the ultimate day 1:50 forward of Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM) in second and a pair of:28 in entrance of huge rival, Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar), in third. 

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The ultimate stage consists of a 22.6km time trial beginning and ending within the Pyrenean metropolis of Pau. It is a primarily flat route that runs south out of the town earlier than looping again in after finishing a hill in the midst of the course. 

Whats up and welcome to Cyclingnews’ stay protection of stage 8, the ultimate day of racing on the 2023 Tour de France Femmes!