{"id":2078862,"date":"2026-08-04T15:57:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2078862"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:57:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T12:57:31","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-5-preview-an-ardennes-style-burner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2078862","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 5 Preview: An Ardennes-Style Burner"},"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-5-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 4, 2026 09:57AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Stage 5, M\u00e2con to Belleville-en-Beaujolais 140km \/ 2,850m<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift returns to the hills with an Ardennes-style burner of a stage that could reignite the GC battle. Seven categorized climbs are packed into 140km, meaning this one could blow up the race.<\/p>\n<p>The finale is especially selective. The Category 2 Mont Brouilly (3km at 7.7 percent) comes just 20km from the finish and is steep enough to trigger attacks before the run into Belleville-en-Beaujolais.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s an ideal launch pad for Demi Vollering or Paula Blasi. Could this stage turn the GC upside down even before the first real climbs?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start time<\/strong>: 7:45 a.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li><strong>Estimated Finish<\/strong>: 11:41 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\">Published August 4, 2026 09:57AM<\/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-5-preview-an-ardennes-style-burner\/&#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-5-Profile-2026.jpg&#8221;] Andrew Hood Published August 4, 2026 09:57AM Stage 5, M\u00e2con to Belleville-en-Beaujolais 140km \/ 2,850m The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift returns to the hills with an Ardennes-style burner of a stage that could reignite the GC battle. Seven categorized climbs are packed into 140km, meaning this one could blow up [&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-2078862","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\/2078862","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=2078862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}