{"id":2072889,"date":"2026-08-01T15:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072889"},"modified":"2026-08-01T15:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T12:14:27","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-2-preview-the-sprinters-will-have-to-earn-this-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2072889","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 2 Preview: The Sprinters Will Have to Earn This One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[analyse_image type=&#8221;featured&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-2-Profile-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\">Published August 1, 2026 09:14AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Stage 2, Aigle to Gen\u00e8ve 147.9km \/ 1,750m\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, at least on paper, is one for the sprinters, but they\u2019ll have to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>The rolling route from Aigle to Geneva features five categorized climbs, though none are long enough on paper to seriously threaten the fastest riders if their teams keep the race under control.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest obstacle comes midway through the stage with the C\u00f4te de Savigny (2.5km at 5%), before a series of shorter climbs, including the punchy C\u00f4te de Bougy-Villars (900m at 10.4%) to test the legs in the final 50km.<\/p>\n<p>The terrain should entice breakaways, but the profile gradually eases as the race approaches Geneva. Can anyone stop Wiebes?<\/p>\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\">Published August 1, 2026 09:14AM<\/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-2-preview-the-sprinters-will-have-to-earn-this-one\/&#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\/08\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-2-Profile-2026.jpg&#8221;] Andrew Hood Published August 1, 2026 09:14AM Stage 2, Aigle to Gen\u00e8ve 147.9km \/ 1,750m\u00a0 Stage 2 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, at least on paper, is one for the sprinters, but they\u2019ll have to earn it. The rolling route from Aigle to Geneva features five categorized climbs, though [&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-2072889","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\/2072889","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=2072889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2072889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2072889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2072889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2072889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}