{"id":2072594,"date":"2026-07-31T15:25:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072594"},"modified":"2026-07-31T15:25:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T12:25:27","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-1-preview-a-deceptively-tough-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072594","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 1 Preview: A Deceptively Tough Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-1-preview-2026.jpg&#8221;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-wrap fp-contentTarget\">\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Andrew Hood<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Updated August 1, 2026 02:50AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Stage 1 | Lausanne\u2013Lausanne | 138km \/ 1,700m<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift opens with a deceptively tough first stage.<\/p>\n<p>The rolling circuit around Lausanne features four categorized climbs, and an uphill finish means that it might not end in a pure bunch sprint.<\/p>\n<p>Three short climbs soften up the peloton ahead of the final test with the C\u00f4te Saint-Fran\u00e7ois (2.6km at 4.6%) sprint to the line. It\u2019s the kind of finale that favors explosive climbers and <i>puncheurs<\/i> over pure sprinters.<\/p>\n<p>The fifth Tour de France Femmes opens with a bang. Who will take yellow?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start time<\/strong>: 8:15 a.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li><strong>Estimated finish<\/strong>: 11:44 a.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\">\n<div class=\"mb-base-loose flex flex-wrap gap-(--spacing-base)\">\n<div class=\"fp-remove flex items-center justify-start gap-(--spacing-base-tight)\"><span class=\"font-utility-2 font-bold text-primary\">Andrew Hood<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Updated August 1, 2026 02:50AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[analyse_source url=&#8221;https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france-femmes\/tour-de-france-femmes-stage-1-preview-a-deceptively-tough-opener\/&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-1-preview-2026.jpg&#8221;] Andrew Hood Updated August 1, 2026 02:50AM Stage 1 | Lausanne\u2013Lausanne | 138km \/ 1,700m The 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift opens with a deceptively tough first stage. The rolling circuit around Lausanne features four categorized climbs, and an uphill finish means that it might not end in a pure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[226,71],"class_list":["post-2072594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-crawlmanager","tag-velo-outsideonline-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2072594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}