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LOES ADEGEEST, FEM VAN EMPEL & JULIE VAN DE VELDE Tour de France Femmes 2024 - Stage 5 📸 by Ashley & Jered Gruber

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Tour de France Femmes - Stage 5

After four stages and three days, the Tour de France Femmes finally crossed into France, where it would finish in Amneville. This was a lumpy stage with five categorized climbs, and many teams had breakaway ambitions. The strongest of the breakaway attempts was a trio of strong riders up the road in the latter half of the race. Fem van Empel (Visma Lease-a-Bike), Loes Adegeest (FDJ-Suez), and Julie Van de Wilde (AG Insurance-Soudal) worked together well and stayed away for a long time, with van Empel scooping up the bonus seconds near the end. The biggest news from this portion was how much Gaia Realini (Lidl-Trek) appeared to be struggling at the back on the short climbs, not a good sign for her GC prospects before we even got to the mountains.

The story of this stage, however, was not one of the breakaway versus the peloton, but of the cruelty of this sport. In an unassuming curve 6km from the finish, a relatively high-speed crash in the main bunch took down some of the top riders, including yellow jersey wearer Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv-AlUla-Jayco), polka-dot jersey Puck Piertese (Fenix-Deceuninck), and Pfeiffer Georgi (dsm-firmenich-postNL). It was a bad crash, with some riders taking a long time to get up and others—including Georgi—not getting up at all, abandoning the race. The images of the crash were not pretty, and we will not reproduced them here.

Vollering was up relatively quickly, but didn't get back on the bike for a while, as she looked to be in pain and had visible tears in her shorts showing road rash on her hip. With the crash outside the 5km mark, all Vollering could do was remount and try to chase back on. We don't even think she got a bike change, and she didn't have any teammates to help her for quite a while, until she reached Mischa Bredewold who could help pull her on the flats.

Up ahead, the parts of the peloton that had survived the crash soon caught the breakaway, and Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) sparked the winning move off the front. Only Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime), Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), and Liane Lippert (Movistar) could join. As they came into the sprint, Lippert attacked from behind, but Niewiadoma and Vas jumped quickly on her wheel and came past her, with Vas the faster of the two. Vas' reaction shows her mixed emotions on the day for Team SD Worx-Protime.

Behind, it was a race against the clock, as Demi Vollering fought to limit her time losses. She was moving quickly, but was in visible pain at the line and after the stage, though she did her cooldown as usual on the stationary bike.

Although Kasia Niewiadoma didn't win the sprint for the stage, she moved into the lead on GC after her strong performance yesterday and today, and will wear yellow tomorrow. We can't feel bad about Niewiadoma in yellow, she certainly deserves it, but even she would probably admit this isn't how she would prefer to take it.

We're a little disheartened with this crash, and hope the riders will recover. Like we said above, this is a cruel sport sometimes, and it's very off-putting. Not everyone was badly hurt—Puck Pieterse was walking around with seemingly boundless energy, throwing flowers to the crowd, despite skinning her chin, hands, and knees. But the overhead images of Pfeiffer Georgi will stay with us for a while, and only time will tell how well Vollering will be able to recover before tomorrow's increasingly mountainous course.

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FDJ-SUEZ INSIDE TOUR DE FRANCE - Stages 1 to 6

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2023 Cadel Road Race Mens Podium

1. Marius Mayrhofer 

2. Hugo Page 

3. Simon Clarke 

Full results: cadelevansgreatoceanroadrace.com.au/elite-men/results/

2023 Cadel Road Race Womens Podium 

1. Loes ADEGEEST

2. Amanda Spratt 

3. Nina BUIJSMAN

#CadelRoadRace

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LOES ADEGEEST, FEM VAN EMPEL & JULIE VAN DE VELDE

Tour de France Femmes 2024 - Stage 5

📸 by Ashley & Jered Gruber

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Recordaantal van meer dan 200 deelnemers aan Rondom de Bult van Usquert

... Loes Adegeest (Deventer) , Sanne Bouwmeester (Westerbork), Mareille Meijering (De Meern), Paulien Koster (Meppel), Fleur Smith (Groningen), ... meer https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://dvhn.nl/groningen/hethogeland/Recordaantal-van-meer-dan-200-deelnemers-aan-Rondom-de-Bult-van-Usquert-26969979.html&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGzdiZTM2OTAwNTFkODk0MDk6bmw6bmw6Tkw6Ug&usg=AFQjCNEZxoTkQcr-RJV6T8Pk1l0R7mDRDQ

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Tour de France Femmes - Stage 3

This afternoon/evening brought the strage, short individual time trial Stage 3 of this year's Tour de France Femmes, in and around Rotterdam. One of the largest port cities in the world, the course highlighted the many famous bridges of the city, and made some opportunities for riders that might night be competitive in a longer or steeper ITT, but could place well in a short, flat stage.

We wondered how Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich-postNL) would fare, and she put in a solid performance and did the yellow (skinsuit) proud.

However, the big guns came out, including Canyon-SRAM's Chloe Dygert, sporting her world champ ITT jersey and the pink shoe covers.

Dygert put in a fast time, but Demi Vollering rode a very aggressive ride and landed five seconds ahead of Dygert. Vollering was definitely one of the top picks for this stage, and she perhaps seemed more surprised than we did at her win.

We have to shout-out Loes Adegeest of FDJ-Suez, who took a very close third place behind Dygert, this was a very impressive ride by Adegeest. Just a fraction of a second behind her was of Cédrine Kerbaol of Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling. Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) and Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) were just one second behind that duo.

At the end of the day, Charlotte Kool is no longer in yellow, but she's looking very good in green, and she has to be quite pleased with her lead in the sprint classification.

And Demi Vollering is in yellow, perhaps earlier than she expected. Will SD Worx-Protime ride to keep her in yellow, or do they mind giving it away for a day or two? We'll see.

Tomorrow is the "Classics" stage, with portions of both Amstel Gold Race and Liege-Bastogne-Liege featured in a long, hard course that makes its way into Belgium and finishing in Liege.

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Giro d'Italia Women - Stage 8

One second. That's all that separated Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) from Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) in the general cassification. In fact, it was the same advantage ELB had on day one when she first put on the maglia rosa after her blistering ITT performance that edged out Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez). So it all came down to the final stage, a mountainous finale that was no joke, even if it wasn't as monstrous as the double-Blockhaus climb of the queen stage before it.

After seven brutal days in the heat and quite a few abandonments due to injury or heat-related issues, few of the teams had their squads intact, but most wanted to get something out of this race, and so the breakaway action was lively. The first significant break to go included Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek) (riding with a broken finger!) and Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal Team), with the latter seeking to lock in her mountains classification. Having done that, she came back to the bunch, and after several attempts, a new break formed with some very strong riders, including Ghekiere's teammate Kim le Court, Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health), and Franziska Koch (DSM-Firmenich PostNL). Edwards had just missed out on a stage win on Stage 6 and was back for more, and this motivated group worked well together to stay just ahead of the peloton.

In the final kilometers, which included a couple short and undulating climbs and descents, the hard pace and multiple attacks off the front from riders such as Loes Adegeest (FDJ-Suez) exploded the group, with riders all over the road. But the break was not messing around with cat-and-mouse, they were in it to win, and they worked together until the final sprint. We thought Edwards would take it, but le Court had the most speed after eight fatiguing days and won by a bike length.

Behind, the general classification battle was about to be decided. As she had been for much of the stage, ELB was practically glued to Lotte Kopecky's wheel. As it became more clear that the break would stay away and there would be no bonus seconds for Kopecky, all ELB had to do was finish with her. And Kopecky tried to shake her rival, but she didn't have as much left as she had yesterday. And ELB was not leaving anything to chance when she made this attack.

Kopecky didn't have a response, and at the line, ELB's lead went to 21 seconds, as she became the first Italian to win pink since 2008, after holding the jersey since day one. (Her husband, fellow Lidl-Trek rider Jacopo Mosca, drove half the night to be there at the finish line, and his reaction at her final attack was fantastic!)

Kopecky, for her part, cemented her podium place and handily won the points classification. This was a really impressive ride from her throughout, particularly yesterday's climbs. Neve Bradbury (Canyon-SRAM) rode well to maintain her bottom spot on the podium.

This was an excellent Giro, we'll have more thoughts later this week, but for now, we truly need the rest day!