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The Guardian
3 days ago
- Sport
- The Guardian
Tour de France Femmes 2025: stage three sets lengthy test to Angers
Update: Date: 2025-07-28T11:15:19.000Z Title: Preamble Content: Today's 163.5km flat stage is being heralded as a day for the sprinters, with flat roads to Angers resulting in a classic bunch sprint. There's a category four climb (1.7km at 4.6%) at 34km in and an intermediate sprint later on, at 123.9km. However, the final run to the finish line is technical, with a number of sharp corners in the last kilometre. The final is technical, though, with multiple sharp corners in the last 1.2 km of the stage. Eyes will be on SD Worx-Protime's Lorena Wiebes after she was denied a sprint finish on stage two by Mavi García's breakaway. Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek), Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez) and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) could be Wiebes's main challengers. I would love to know your thoughts on the race so far and any predictions you have for today's stage – you can get in touch via the email linked at the top of the page. The riders will begin with a neutralised start at 1.50pm CET/12.50pm BST, with the finish expected at approximateLy 5.30pm CET/4.30pm BST. While we wait for the peloton to get going, here's a recap of yesterday's events:
BBC News
4 days ago
- Sport
- BBC News
Tour de France - Pogacar begins celebrations as rivals battle for final stage win
Update: Date: 15:50 BST Title: Post Content: Jordan Jegat snatched a spot in the top 10 of the general classification standings yesterday after getting into the breakaway, from which Kaden Groves claimed his first Tour win. Update: Date: 128km to go Title: Post Content: Out at the back of the peloton, the Australian contingent are catching up with each other. It's been a great year for the Aussies, with Ben O'Connor and Kaden Groves both claiming stage wins over the past three days. O'Connor was unable to prevent French rider Jordan Jegat snatching a top-10 GC spot from him yesterday but the Jayco AlUla rider will still be pleased to have ended his four-year wait for a second Tour stage win. Update: Date: 15:38 BST Title: Post Content: After three weeks of thrilling action, the first Tour to be held entirely in France since 2020 will conclude in the capital later. Update: Date: 132km to go Title: Post Content: Flat stage, 132.3km, from Mantes-la-Ville to Champs-Elysees The riders have pretty much gone full gas from the start of each and every stage of this year's Tour, treating many of the flatter stages like one-day classics. But there's none of that today. The stage is under way and Tadej Pogacar is rolling along at the front of the peloton, posing for pictures with his UAE Emirates-XRG team-mates. Back in the bunch, team-mates and rivals are nattering away, having a chuckle as they begin their leisurely ride into Paris. Update: Date: 15:30 BST Title: Stage 21 route guide Content: Flat stage, 132.3km, from Mantes-la-Ville to Champs-Elysees The Tour returns to it's traditional Paris finish after relocating to Nice last year due to the Olympics. However, it does so with a twist, given the cobbled climb up to the Sacre-Coeur Basilica features three times in a throwback to the road race in the 2024 Paris Games. It's a 1.1km ascent at a gradient of 5.9% added to the original finishing circuit in the French capital, designed to whittle down the field before a high-speed finish, albeit possibly without some of the pure sprinters. Update: Date: 15:28 BST Title: General classification before final stage Content: Update: Date: 15:25 BST Title: How it works on the Tour's final stage Content: Tadej Pogacar is more than four minutes clear at the top of the general classification standings. But just to be clear, the Slovenian superstar has not clinched his fourth Tour de France win just yet. He basically just has to stay upright as the final day of the Tour is a processional stage, where traditionally the GC leader is not challenged. Update: Date: 15:20 BST Title: Bonjour Content: And welcome to the final stage of the 2025 Tour de France, when Tadej Pogacar is set to secure his fourth general classification win in cycling's biggest and best race. There is also a prestigious stage win up for grabs on the Champs-Elysees, before this year's jersey winners are paraded in Paris. So sit back and enjoy as we bring you all the action and look back on a thrilling three weeks around France.
France 24
4 days ago
- Sport
- France 24
Spanish veteran Garcia wins stage 2 of women's Tour de France
The 41-year-old Garcia, of the Liv-AlUla-Jayco team, attacked with 10km to go and it paid off as she crossed the line three seconds ahead of the chasing peloton. Le Court took over atop the overall standings from Marianne Vos, who won Saturday's opening stage. Dutch sprinter Charlotte Kool, who won the opening two stages of last year's Tour, was a late withdrawal from the peloton, which now counts 152 riders. The Picnic-PostNL rider, who finished 7:40 off Vos' pace on Saturday, fell in competition last week and after consulting her team's medical staff opted to withdraw. Kool's withdrawal was the second of the Tour following that of Swiss rider Marlen Reusser (Movistar), who had been expected to push for the podium but who was sick. Monday's third stage is a flat 163.5km ride from La Gacilly to Angers. The women's Tour features nine stages, culminating in a mountain ascent for a summit finish in the ski resort of Chatel on August 3. © 2025 AFP
Arab News
5 days ago
- Sport
- Arab News
Cycling great Vos wins 1st stage of women's Tour de France with brilliant late attack
Ferrand-Prévot looked set to win the stage, but the Frenchwoman attacked too early from 600 meters For the latest updates, follow us @ArabNewsSport
France 24
5 days ago
- Sport
- France 24
Pogacar on cusp of fourth Tour title as Groves solos to stage 20 win
Runaway overall race leader Pogacar maintained his lead over Danish rival Jonas Vingegaard ahead of Sunday's 21st and final stage in Paris. The Team UAE rider has a 4min 24sec advantage heading into what could be a tricky finale, a 132km ride from Mantes-la-Ville to the Champs-Elysees, but featuring three ascents of the cobbled streets of Montmartre. A fourth title now looms for Pogacar who said after a dominant ride across the peaks and plains of France he felt he's won. "It's starting to sink in," said the 26-year-old, who previously won the sport's most prestigious cycling stage race in 2020, 2021 and 2024. "Tomorrow, all being well, I'll be celebrating with my team," added a weary Pogacar. "This has been another level of hard, all the way. I enjoyed it though and I'm really looking forward to the last day tomorrow." Fifth stage tilt Pogacar refused to rule out a tilt at a fifth stage win if he could escape up the climbs to Montmartre. "We'll see how we feel and how the others act, maybe we'll try something in Montmartre." The champion-in-waiting was left shaking his head after almost getting taken down in a fall 500m from the line on Saturday as lashing rain made the roads hazardous on the run in to Pontarlier. This was a third stage win for Alpecin after Jasper Philipsen and Mathieu van der Poel took the two opening wins. "They gave me a free role in the final days," Groves said after both Philipsen and Van der Poel pulled out. "I'm going to enjoy this one and celebrate with my team and enjoy the Champs tomorrow." Just 158 riders crossed the rolling hills at the foot of the Jura and many looked haggard after the fast racing in the Alps. So along the Swiss border, most of the peloton seemed happy to let an escape get a 7min lead after an exhausting slog that started July 5. Pogacar has dominated the 2025 Tour winning stages on rolling runs in the north and west at Rouen and the Mur de Bretagne in the first week, then on the mountain slopes of the Pyrenees on the Hautacam and Peyragudes in week two. As the Tour entered its end game Pogacar unexpectedly sat tight to protect his lead through the Alps rather go on his trademark all out attacks. Vingegaard, the 2022 and 2023 Tour champion, had two off days, first on a time trial and secondly at Hautacam, leaving Pogacar to surge into a lead he never looked like surrendering. Back in the saddle Pogacar said he'd be back on the bike by Tuesday. "I travel home Monday. Tuesday I'll be going out for a ride with friends, stop somewhere for a coffee and start enjoying the summer, I've earned it." Pogacar returns to competitive action in September at Kigali, Rwanda, in defence of his world title. A boyish Pogacar first won the Tour as a break out star in 2020 with one of sport's great last-gasp turnarounds on stage 20. He followed up a year later with a crushing triumph, but the emergence of Vingegaard's patient long game earned the Dane the yellow jersey in the two following editions. Then Pogacar blew everyone away in a mighty 2024 season with a colossal racing programme, winning the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France and world championships titles. Having extended his efforts into the all-in one-day classics season in 2025, his stamina was a question mark, but on Sunday that barrier also appears set to be breached.
