{"id":2083095,"date":"2026-08-06T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2083095"},"modified":"2026-08-06T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:38:09","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-7-preview-ventoux-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2083095","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 7 Preview: Ventoux Time"},"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-7-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\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published August 6, 2026 10:38AM<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Stage 7, 146.8km \/ 3,500m+: La Voulte-Sur-Rh\u00f4ne \u2013 Mont Ventoux<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Stage 7, it\u2019s the moment that we\u2019ve all been waiting for. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will climb the mythical Mont Ventoux for the first time on this centerpiece stage of the race.<\/p>\n<p>And better still, the bunch will race the \u201cG\u00e9ant of Provence\u201d via the Bedoin approach.<\/p>\n<p>With an average 9 percent gradient over 16 unrelenting kilometers, it\u2019s rated one of the toughest climbs in European road racing. It certainly blows away the other historic climbs tackled in the Femmes \u2013 Alpe d\u2019Huez, Col du Tourmalet, and Col du Madeleine.<\/p>\n<p>This stage is guaranteed to reshape the GC standings. Don\u2019t be surprised to see multi-minute gaps between the favorites as they winch their way up the lunar white upper slopes. Don\u2019t miss it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start Time<\/strong>: 6:50 a.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li><strong>Estimated Finish<\/strong>: 11:17 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\">Jim Cotton<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pub-date font-utility-2 text-secondary\">Published August 6, 2026 10:38AM<\/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-7-2026\/&#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-7-Profile-2026.jpg&#8221;] Jim Cotton Published August 6, 2026 10:38AM Stage 7, 146.8km \/ 3,500m+: La Voulte-Sur-Rh\u00f4ne \u2013 Mont Ventoux Stage 7, it\u2019s the moment that we\u2019ve all been waiting for. The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift will climb the mythical Mont Ventoux for the first time on this centerpiece stage of the race. [&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-2083095","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\/2083095","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=2083095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}