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2 hours ago
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In pictures: Tour of Britain takes to the streets of Glasgow
Hundreds of spectators lined the streets of Glasgow to watch Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands win the fourth and final stage of the Women's Tour of Britain. Ally Wollaston of New Zealand sealed overall victory by finishing third and taking bonus seconds to push overnight leader, Britain's Cat Ferguson, into second place. Speaking about her stage victory, Lorena Wiebes said: "It was a tough race - with a city centre, all the time you have to push the power. "The team did a really good job to keep me safe in the front. "For me, it was perfect towards the finish as I could do the sprint as I wanted to." Wollaston denies GB's Ferguson to win Tour of Britain
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2 hours ago
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Cycling: Kiwi Ally Wollaston wins Tour of Britain
Ally Wollaston. Photo: FDJ-Suez New Zealand cyclist Ally Wollaston has won the Tour of Britain. Wollaston went into the fourth and final stage three seconds behind British rider Cat Ferguson but picked up time bonuses in the three intermediate sprints in Glasgow before gaining another four bonus seconds by finishing third on the stage. Wollaston, who rides for FDJ-Suez, beat Movistar's Ferguson by four seconds overall. "I'm a little bit overwhelmed, sorry. I'm so happy, first of all, a massive thank you to my team-mates, I couldn't have done it without them," Wollaston said. "This means the world to me, it's my first World Tour victory in GC (general classification)." Wollaston, 24, is two-time world champion on the track and last year won a silver and bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. She won a World Tour one-day race in Australia in February. "I knew I needed to get every second I could in the bonus sprints, and unfortunately, Cat was right on my wheel every time! "So it came down to the last sprint, and there was a moment of doubt halfway through that last lap where I thought 'I just cannot do this today', and my team-mates really helped me pull it together and pulled me to the front for the final." The final stage was held on an 8.4km city-centre circuit in Glasgow.
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5 hours ago
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In pictures: Tour of Britain snakes through Glasgow
Hundreds of spectators lined the streets of Glasgow to watch Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands win the fourth and final stage of the Women's Tour of Wollaston of New Zealand sealed overall victory by finishing third and taking bonus seconds to push overnight leader, Britain's Cat Ferguson, into second about her stage victory, Lorena Wiebes said: "It was a tough race - with a city centre, all the time you have to push the power. "The team did a really good job to keep me safe in the front. "For me, it was perfect towards the finish as I could do the sprint as I wanted to."
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6 hours ago
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Cat Ferguson breaks new ground to take Tour of Britain lead after crash-packed stage
The 19-year-old Cat Ferguson prevailed in foul conditions at the finish to claim victory on a crash-packed stage three of the Women's Tour of Britain and with it the general classification lead. It was her first UCI Women's World Tour stage victory. Ferguson (Movistar) from Skipton, North Yorkshire, surged clear across the cobbles in Kelso to lead home a British one-two in front of Josie Nelson (Picnic-PostNL). New Zealand's Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) finished third, with the Dutch rider Karlijn Swinkels (UAE Team ADQ) in fourth. Advertisement Stage three result 1 Cat Ferguson (GB/Movistar) 3h 42m 37s 2 Josie Nelson (GB/Picnic-PostNL) same time 3 Ally Wollaston (NZ/FDJ-Suez) st 4 Karlijn Swinkels (Neth/UAE-Team ADQ) st 5 Eleonora Gasparrini (Ita/UAE-Team ADQ) +3s 6 Millie Couzens (GB National Team) +38s 7 Quinty Ton (Neth/Liv-Alula-Jayco) same time 8 Imogen Wolff (GB/Visma Lease A Bike) st 9 Charlotte Kool (Neth/Picnic-PostNL) st 10 Marta Lach (Pol/SD Worx-Protime) st General classification 1 Cat Ferguson (GB/Movistar) 8h 39m 42s 2 Ally Wollaston (NZ/FDJ-Suez) +3s 3 Karlijn Swinkels (Neth/UAE-Team ADQ) +12s 4 Riejanne Markus (Neth/Lidl-Trek) +40s 5 Megan Jastrab (US/Picnic-PostNL) +52s Advertisement 6 Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (Den/Canyon-SRAM) +52s 7 Quinty Ton (Neth/Liv-Alula-Jayco) +56s 8 Anna Henderson (GB/Lidl-Trek) +56s 9 Millie Couzens (GB National Team) +59s 10 Amber Kraak (Neth/FDJ-Suez) + 1m 5s It propelled Ferguson past the leader Kristen Faulkner – who finished more than three minutes down – and into the overall lead with Sunday's final stage to come. Wollaston trails by three seconds in the provisional general classification, with Swinkels a further nine seconds back, and Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek) fourth, 40 seconds behind Ferguson. The stage was marred by a number of crashes with several riders forced to abandon, among them previous race leader Kim Le Court. Advertisement 'This was one of the races I was most excited to do this season. I really wanted to come here in good form and show Britain how good I can be and I think I proved that,' said Ferguson. 'It's really emotional, even talking about it now. 'We worked well together as a group and I knew that if I positioned myself well into that final corner I could probably win the sprint. It was useful we'd done it before, in the intermediate sprint. I knew it was better to be second wheel and then launch first because you lose some momentum on the cobbles and it's hard to build it back up.' On the final stage Ferguson said: 'I'm a little bit nervous. It's going to be a rough night's sleep, I really want to hold on to this jersey. We'll see how it goes around the streets of Glasgow. I've raced there before and we've got a strong and motivated team. We'll do our best to defend it.'
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6 hours ago
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Ally Wollaston pips British teenager Cat Ferguson to Tour of Britain title
The teenage prodigy Cat Ferguson came within a hair's breadth of executing a memorable overall win in her debut Tour of Britain, but was outsprinted by her rival Ally Wollaston at the climax of the final stage in Glasgow. The pair came into the final sprint tied on time, after Wollaston had erased the 19-year-old Ferguson's overall lead. Bonus seconds for third place in the final sprint, behind the stage winner, Lorena Wiebes, was enough for the New Zealander to snatch the overall win. Advertisement Related: 'They named a sandwich after me': Luke Rowe on life in the peloton, cobbles and Welsh riders 'I was lucky that there were a lot of seconds up for grabs,' Wollaston, riding for FDJ-Suez, said. Wiebes, SD Worx-Protime teammate to the absent defending champion, Lotte Kopecky, rescued her team's race with a peerless stage win. 'We've had some bad luck this week with crashes and lost GC hopes because of it,' Wiebes said, 'but wrapping up the week with a stage win feels great.' Yet it was Wollaston's day and her turns of speed in the intermediate sprints chiselled relentlessly away at Ferguson's narrow lead until only a single second separated the pair in the overall standings. Advertisement After beating Ferguson yet again, in the third sprint, Wollaston asserted herself in the final dash to the line to take the biggest win of her career. 'The plan was to get as many seconds as I could, and unfortunately Cat was on my wheel for every single one, so it really came down to the last sprint,' she said. 'There was definitely a moment where I thought, 'I just cannot do this today.' My teammates really helped me, and pulled me to the front for the final.' The Aucklander's success came at Ferguson's expense and the teenager from Skipton crossed the finish line in tears as she realised she had lost the overall lead. 'I would have loved to have won. I am gutted, but she was the strongest today,' Ferguson, of the Movistar team, said. 'If you had told me at the beginning of the week that I'd be second, I would have been over the moon, so I can't be too disappointed.' Advertisement Victory began to slip from Ferguson's grasp in the series of intermediate sprints centred on Glasgow Green, in which she and her Movistar team were consistently overpowered by Wollaston and her FDJ-Suez team. A mid-race puncture also forced an unwelcome bike change and left Ferguson chasing the peloton on the fast circuit. 'It was eventful for sure,' Ferguson, who also won the points and best young rider classifications, said. 'There was always something going on during the intermediate sprints. I had a puncture, but I didn't want to change the bike, because I felt OK, [but] then it was slowly going down.' Try as she might, the teenager was unable to prevent Wollaston's track racing experience from eroding the hard-fought gains made in Saturday's stage, through the rainswept hills west of Kelso. In the final crucial sprint, Wollaston's team put her in a better position on the last bend. 'I got a bit chopped up on some corners and really that was it,' Ferguson said. 'Ally went away and I knew that was it.' Advertisement But Ferguson, winner of the junior world road race and time trial titles last season, can take heart from a consistently strong performance throughout the four day race. The race's most dramatic moments came in the hills around Kelso in Saturday's attritional and rainswept 143.8-kilometre third stage. As others suffered, Ferguson flourished. The stage, marked by two major crashes, proved catastrophic for the overnight race leader, Kristen Faulkner, who suffered a series of mishaps and finished more than three minutes behind Ferguson. The 19-year-old, who had said 'I love it when it rains' following a win earlier this season, was true to her word on Saturday, showing true grit and bike handling skills, particularly on the greasy Kelso cobbles at the finish. Ferguson described the torrid conditions around Kelso as 'really horrible,' but said 'the rain brings out the racer in me and gives me more adrenaline'. Advertisement Meanwhile, as Ferguson pondered what might have been, a tearful Lizzie Deignan rolled to a halt in Glasgow, after completing her final day of racing on British roads. Describing her feelings as 'very close to the surface', Deignan, who retires at the end of this season, said her final day racing in Britain was 'emotional.' The 36 old described the Glasgow stage as 'fast and technical and scary, but really fun as well'. 'The crowd were amazing and the team committed 100%,' she said. 'We were against all odds today, but we didn't give up.'
