{"id":2075303,"date":"2026-08-02T16:26:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2075303"},"modified":"2026-08-02T16:26:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T13:26:24","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-3-preview-the-first-gc-test-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2075303","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 3 Preview: The First GC Test of 2026"},"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-3-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 2, 2026 10:26AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Stage 3, Gen\u00e8ve to Poligny\u00a0 156.5km \/ 2,430m<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is the first real GC test of the race. Just 24km into the race, the peloton tackles the Cat. 1 Col de la Faucille, (11.4km at 6.3%) that could split the field in the first hour of racing.<\/p>\n<p>The climbing continues across the Jura with the C\u00f4te de Lajoux and Col de la Savine before the race crosses into France. The final 60 kilometers trend downhill, but one last sting remains with the C\u00f4te de Chaux-Champagny (1.8km at 6.4%) before the run into Poligny.<\/p>\n<p>The overall contenders won\u2019t win the Tour here, but anyone caught out could certainly lose it.<\/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 2, 2026 10:26AM<\/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-3-preview-the-first-gc-test-of-2026\/&#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-3-Profile-2026.jpg&#8221;] Andrew Hood Published August 2, 2026 10:26AM Stage 3, Gen\u00e8ve to Poligny\u00a0 156.5km \/ 2,430m Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is the first real GC test of the race. Just 24km into the race, the peloton tackles the Cat. 1 Col de la Faucille, (11.4km at 6.3%) [&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-2075303","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\/2075303","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=2075303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2075303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2075303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2075303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2075303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}