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  • Pauline Ferrand-Prévot Abandons Tour de France Femmes After Disaster Title Defense

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289489467.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 8, 2026 07:18AM Pauline Ferrand-Prévot abandoned the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on Saturday. Visma-Lease a Bike confirmed before the start of Saturday’s 8th stage that the defending champion is out, sick. “Unfortunately, Pauline was not feeling well this morning. In consultation with the medical staff, it…

  • The Tour de France Femmes Is So Close It Could Come Down to the Final Descent and Sprint in Nice

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8A_9873.jpg”] Andrew Hood Updated August 8, 2026 03:54AM After nine days of racing, 1,175km, and one brutal grind up Mont Ventoux, the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift might still be decided by seconds. Perhaps even in the final sprint Sunday on the Promenade des Anglais. Friday’s gripping showdown on the Géant de…

  • Demi Vollering Fined by UCI for Peeing in Public in Tour de France Femmes Sanction Overdrive

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8A_9547.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 8, 2026 03:59AM Demi Vollering and two of her teammates were fined by the UCI for peeing in public on Friday at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift And they were only three of many who fell victim to a regulation crackdown on Friday’s hotly hyped 7th…

  • Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney: Ventoux Stage Win is Payback

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8D_5987.jpg”] Andy McGrath Updated August 7, 2026 04:07PM Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney was the one her closest Tour de France Femmes rivals should have been worried about. Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering might pay the price for underestimating one of the generation’s most consistent riders – so often a podium finisher, so rarely a winner,…

  • Counting the Cost: Vollering and Reusser Admit Crucial Errors at Tour de France Femmes

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2288640785.jpg”] Shane Stokes Updated August 7, 2026 04:26PM Friday’s key stage of the Tour de France Femmes saw a tactical and physical masterclass by Kasia Niewiadoma, who capitalized on a ferocious rivalry between former teammates Demi Vollering and Marlen Reusser, the riders in first and second overall, and seized yellow as a result.…

  • Power Analysis: Kasia Niewiadoma Just Had the Best Climb Performance in Tour de France Femmes History

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Z8B_1436.jpg”] Zach Nehr Updated August 7, 2026 02:50PM When Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney launched with just over 9km to go on Mont Ventoux, we all thought it was too early. Even the most devout Niewiadoma fans would admit they were nervous when the Canyon-SRAM rider attacked on stage 7 of the Tour de France Femmes…

  • Velo Podcast: The Aero Math Behind “Bra Maxxing” and the Reality of 32-Inch Wheels

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Velo-Podcast-thumbnail-site.jpg”] Josh Ross Updated August 7, 2026 01:41PM Table of Contents •Get right to the audio episode This week, the crew is quite small, as myself (Josh Ross) and Logan Jones-Wilkins were both out. That left Lisa Charlebois and Mike Levy in the studio to discuss the big, dumb rides they are both…

  • Should the UCI Minimum Bike Weight Rule Be Lower for the Women’s Peloton?

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/liv-scales.jpg”] David Everett Published August 7, 2026 12:15PM Back in the year 2000, cycling’s governing body, the UCI, installed the now-infamous weight-limit regulation for bikes, or the catchier title, Article 1.3.019, which states that any bike used in a UCI-sanctioned event can’t weigh below 6.8kg. Initially, the rule was put in place not…

  • Tour de France Femmes Stage 8 Preview: The Final Sprint

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-8-Profile-2026.jpg”] Jim Cotton Published August 7, 2026 11:08AM Stage 8, Sisteron to Nice, 171.9km / 1,420m+ After the highs of Mont Ventoux, stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift stays low. This stage into Nice is the longest and flattest of the nine-day race, and also the most guaranteed to…

  • Tour de France Femmes Stage 7: Niewiadoma Rips Yellow from Vollering and Reusser with Incredible Ventoux Raid

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/GettyImages-2289487281.jpg”] Jim Cotton Updated August 7, 2026 11:32AM Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney turned the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift on its head with a sensational solo attack on the relentless slopes of Mont Ventoux. The Canyon-SRAM star kicked 9km from the summit of the mythical “bald mountain” on stage 7 on Friday to leave her…