Tour De France Femmes 2025: Stage Four From Saumur To Poitiers – Live

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Demi Vollering of FDJ-Suez will commencement today’s shape 4 contempt a dense clang connected nan attack to Angers yesterday. The 2023 Tour de France Femmes champion frankincense avoids nan destiny of respective different high-profile riders successful nan first 3 stages: Marlen Reusser (Movistar), Charlotte Kool (Picnic PostNL) and Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) are among 8 riders successful nan peloton who person abandoned already.

“It’s not normal, nan cognition of galore teams and galore riders. They’re disrespectful. We suffer nan respect successful nan past years successful men’s and women’s cycling,” said Vollering’s squad manager, Stephen Delcourt, aft yesterday’s accident. The highly dressed up Dutch rider will doubtless beryllium riding done a batch of symptom aft a dense effect connected her back, knee and glutes yesterday.

The irrepressible Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease A Bike), meanwhile, retook nan GC lead aft yesterday’s stage, won by Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-ProTime). Vos is simply a specified 6sec up second-placed of Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal) and 12 sec successful beforehand of her ain Visma teammate, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, successful 3rd spot overall. Those constrictive gaps will mean plentifulness of nervousness among nan GC teams pinch nan imaginable for astonishment attacks, particularly if nan upwind blows.

Stage four, a 131km travel from Saumur to Poitiers, should beryllium 1 for nan sprinters but nan beingness of nan category-four climb of Cote de Marigny mightiness tempt a fewer imaginable flight artists to springiness it a go. That acme of that solitary categorised climb comes aft 101.6km of racing – but nan chances are we spot a title good controlled by sprinters’ and GC teams alike.

Stage start: 1.45pm UK clip / 2.45pm section time