9/3/2023 0 Comments Jumbo bike riders republicTeam BikeExchange-Jayco’s Kristen Faulkner fared even worse, and now sits 92nd on GC, over four minutes down. The French team’s Danish leader Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig was held up by yet another crash, and lost 1.38 to Vos by the finish, and over a minute to the likes of Demi Vollering and Annemiek van Vleuten (who also surprisingly seemed to struggle on the drag to the line, ceding five seconds to Vollering). While Balsamo worked hard to forge her leader Longo Borghini clear – the leading five would end up putting around half a minute into all of their rivals – things went from bad to worse for FDJ as the peloton blew to pieces in the crosswinds. While Cavalli, who finished second overall at this month’s Giro Donne, got back on her bike following the sickening collision, she later abandoned the race and is currently being treated in hospital.Ĭoming through the finish line to begin the local loop around Provins, which doubled as an intermediate sprint, Trek-Segafredo’s Elisa Balsamo took advantage of the post-sprint lull to bridge to Van der Duin, with teammate Longo Borghini, Niewiadoma, Persico and Vos on her wheel. One of those crashes saw Australian champion Nicole Frain, chasing to regain contact, ride straight into the back of FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope’s Marta Cavalli, who had managed to avoid the initial pile-up. The Dutch sprinter’s opportune move also preceded a string of potentially race-changing crashes, as the speed noticeably went up a notch. Strong winds and open, exposed rural roads led to a day of tension for the peloton, as teams – conscious of the threat of echelons – sought to protect their leaders and GC hopes.Ģ0-year-old’s Maike van der Duin’s attack with 25 kilometres to go, however, lit the blue touch paper and heightened a few already jangling nerves in the bunch. Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift July 25, 2022 ⏪ Revivez le dernier kilomètre de la 2ème étape du #TDFF. □ □□ remporte le sprint de l’échappée à Provins. □ □□ wins the breakaway sprint in Provins. ![]() After finishing second behind Lorena Wiebes on the Champs-Élysées yesterday, Vos outsprinted a small group including Silvia Persico, Kasia Niewiadoma and Elisa Longo Borghini on the uphill drag to the line in Provins.Īs the race descended into chaos behind her, with a number of pre-race favourites losing significant amounts of time or even crashing out completely, Vos remained cool, letting Niewiadoma lead her out before shifting down a gear as the road flattened to sprint to a historic stage win and the first yellow jersey of her illustrious, unsurpassed career. ![]() In 2009 Vos won the final ever stage of the Grande Boucle Féminine, the closest thing the women’s peloton had to a ‘Tour de France’ in those days.ġ3 years later, the Jumbo-Visma rider didn’t leave it long to restamp her authority on French roads. Marianne Vos, arguably the greatest cyclist we’ve ever seen, unleashed her trademark sprint on the uphill drag to the line in Provins to win stage two of the Tour de France Femmes, and with it take the yellow jersey, after a dramatic, windy, crash-filled and potentially GC-upending day.
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