♀️ Updates from the 138km opening stage of this year’s race
♀️ Vollering gears up for latest Tour tilt | And email Luke
The Tour de France Femmes, since relaunching and rebranding in 2022, has had four different winners: Anniemiek van Vleuten, Demi Vollering, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney and, most recently, the home favourite Pauline Ferrand-Prévot. Hence it is a more exciting business than the men’s event, where the general classification has been sewn up by the relentless Tadej Pogacar in recent years.
But like so much women’s sport, the TdF Femmes increasingly stands alone, growing in popularity and stature every year and attracting more fans to the beautiful sport of cycling. Vollering, whose Giro win earlier in the season sealed the set of all three grand tours, is the favourite to win the nine-stage race – but French fans would dearly love to see Ferrand-Prévot finish in yellow again.
