Tour De France Femmes 2025: Stage One From Vannes To Plumelec – Live

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Jeremy Whittle previews nan 9 days up connected nan Tour de France Femmes.

The brace person different rivals, pinch Marlen Reusser, victor of nan Tour of Switzerland and 2nd successful nan Giro d’Italia, and Elisa Longo Borghini, victor of nan women’s Giro, starring nan way. Others tin of mounting a superior situation see nan Australian climber Sarah Gigante, France’s Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, victor of nan women’s Paris-Roubaix, and Anna van der Breggen of nan Netherlands, 3rd successful nan women’s Vuelta and Vollering’s erstwhile sports director.

Australia has a existent dream successful Sarah Gigante.

Preamble

Last year’s title was an all-time classic, going to 4 seconds connected Alpe D’Huez successful moments of almost indescribable drama. This year’s exemplary has a batch to unrecorded up to, but nan main protagonists, arsenic Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma do conflict erstwhile more. There’s a big of different contenders, too. First up, a short, punchy shape group for a tea-time finish.

Let’s quote the fantabulous Rouleur Magazine’s short floor plan of nan stage.

The 79km way is short but acold from easy. After rolling northbound done lumpy terrain, nan peloton tackles nan Côte de Botségalo earlier entering a finishing circuit successful Plumelec, wherever nan Côte de Cadoudal awaits them not once, but 3 times. This 1.7 km climb, averaging 6.2% pinch a steep last pitch, will determine nan shape – and nan first yellowish jersey. It’s a time for nan puncheurs, not nan sprinters, and fireworks are each but guaranteed connected nan last ascent.

Tour de France Femmes Stage 1 map. Photograph: TDDF/ASO