A bumper TDFF round up 🇫🇷

It's been a big week for women's cycling!

Hello lovely subscribers and welcome to Women’s Cycling Weekly! 🚴‍♀️

Free subscribers, it’s been a minute! 🫶

Just like that, the Tour is done! I’m back home after the five hour drive from Pau to Girona and the events of the last week are just about sinking in. I’m excited to be reunited with my own bed and some non-French coffee but I’m sad that the Tour is over for another year.

While I was running around like a madwoman through France delivering daily newsletters for paid subscribers (which you can still access via the archive if you sign up now!) and recording and editing the podcast, Lulah was at home compiling this bumper edition of the newsletter comprised of all the TDFF news and content out there.

Given the monstrous effort from all sides throughout the Tour, WCW will be taking a much-needed break for the rest of this week! But don’t worry, we’ll be back next week for the build-up to worlds!

Enjoy,

Amy x

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News 📰

• SD Worx have issued an update on Amy Pieters.

• Lotta Henttala was disqualified from the Tour de France Femmes after reportedly holding onto the team car.

• Demi Vollering received a 20 second time penalty for using the slipstream of the team car to get back to the peloton after a puncture.

• Following this time penalty, SD Worx sports director Danny Stam has been removed from the Tour de France Femmes by the UCI commissaires’ panel.

• Hannah Barnes has announced that she will be retiring at the end of the year.

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Read  🗞️

• Someone please get Audrey Cordon-Ragot some goats 

• Chasing the white jersey: In the team car with Lifeplus-Wahoo at the Tour de France Femmes 

• Tour de France Femmes unsung heroes: Jess Allen on being the human yo-yo and her first $0 contract 

• Meet Natalie Grinczer, the NHS worker racing the Tour de France Femmes 

• Fenix-Deceuninck: The team on fire 

• From first pro race to the Tour in 18 months: Georgie Howe's whirlwind ride 

• No more Liane in waiting 

• 'For me, this is special': How a joke ended in victory for Lotte Kopecky at the Tour de France Femmes 

• 'If we continue like this, SD Worx can kill our sport' 

• 'If you lose like this then you can only be proud:' Julie Van de Velde’s near miss 

• The unbridled joy of a Tour de France stage win 

• 'The body's not a perfect science' - Juliette Labous on an up and down start to the Tour de France Femmes 

• Something has changed at Canyon-SRAM

• “Your value is not based on your results" - Olympic Champion Jenny Rissveds on balancing road, mountain, and mental health 

• Kastelijn: Victorious day in Tour de France Femmes was 'longest ride I ever did'  

• What your favourite rider’s favourite Taylor Swift song says about them

• Tour de France Femmes unsung heroes: Elena Cecchini on dogs, family, home, and Elia Viviani's hate of tails

• ‘My legs hurt the same as Van Vleuten and Vollering’ - A conversation with one of the first female riders to race the Col du Tourmalet

• No Emma, you're not dreaming 

• There’s a secret hypnosis chamber at the Tour de France Femmes for one team’s marginal gains 

• Clara Koppenburg's 10-year-old super fan gets team car ride in Tour de France Femmes time trial 

• Does the women’s peloton need – or want –180 kilometre road stages? 

• The duel that never was 

• 'Whatever happens, I'm starting the club': Iffat Tejani on realising her bucket list dream of opening up cycling to Muslim women 

• Katie Archibald on Glasgow & partner Rab Wardell's death

• Opinion: There will never be another bike rider like Annemiek van Vleuten

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Watch 📺

 

  

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Listen 🎧

Evie Richards on her struggles throughout her career and the importance of a work/life balance ahead of the Glasgow World Championships.

There have been many daily podcasts to keep up with this week, starting with our very own Women’s Cycling Weekly Podcast

 Then, of course, The Wheel Talk Podcast

And The Cycling Podcast too

Finishing up with the Voxwomen Podcast

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Results 🏆

Tour de France Femmes (2.WWT)

Overall:

1. Demi Vollering 🇳🇱 (SDW) 🟡

2. Lotte Kopecky 🇧🇪 (SDW) + 🟢

3. Kasia Niewiadoma 🇵🇱 (CSR) +⚪🔴

Best young rider

Cédrine Kerbaol 🇫🇷 (WNT) 12th overall

Super combative

Yara Kastelijn 🇳🇱 (FED)

Stage 1: Lotte Kopecky 🇧🇪 (SDW)

Stage 2: Liane Lippert 🇩🇪 (MOV)

Stage 3: Lorena Wiebes 🇳🇱 (SDW)

Stage 4: Yara Kastelijn 🇳🇱(FED)

Stage 5: Ricarda Bauernfeind 🇩🇪 (CSR) 

Stage 6: Emma Norsgaard 🇩🇰 (MOV)

Stage 7: Demi Vollering 🇳🇱 (SDW)

Stage 8 (ITT): Marlen Reusser 🇨🇭 (SDW)

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Upcoming races 📆  

Road & Para-Cycling Road

1st August: Kreiz Breizh Elites Féminin (1.1)

How to watch:

• Live on the Kreiz Breizh Elites Féminin website

3rd - 13th August: 🌈 UCI World Championships, Scotland

Saturday 5th August: RR Junior

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 10:45 CEST.

Tuesday 8th August: Team Time Trial Mixed Relay

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 13:55 CEST.

Wednesday 9th August: 

• T2 ITT

• T1 ITT

• H2 ITT

• H1 ITT

• H5 ITT

• H4 ITT

• H3 ITT

Thursday 10th August: 

• C3 ITT

• C2 ITT

• C1 ITT

• B ITT

• C5 ITT

• C4 ITT

• Junior ITT

• Elite (including U23) ITT

How to watch:

• Elite ITT: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 14:55 CEST.

Friday 11th August:

• RR Combined T1 and T2

• RR COmbined H1-5 

MTB

3rd - 13th August: 🌈 UCI World Championships, Scotland

Friday 4th August: DH Junior 

How to watch: 

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 15:30 CEST.

Saturday 5th August: DH Elite

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 13:15 CEST.

Sunday 6th August: XCM

Wednesday 9th August:

• Team Relay

• E-MTB XC

Thursday 10th August:

• XCO Junior

• XCC Elite

How to watch:

• XCC Elite: Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 19:30 CEST.

Friday 11th August: XCO U23

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 16:30 CEST.

Track & Para-Cycling Track

3rd - 13th August: 🌈 UCI World Championships, Scotland

Thursday 3rd August Medal Events:

• C3 Individual Pursuit

• C5 500m Time Trial

• B 1km Time Trial 

• Individual Pursuit

• Team Sprint  

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 10:30 CEST, medal events from 18:40 CEST.

Friday 4th August Medal Events:

• C1 500m Time Trial

• C2 Individual Pursuit

• C4 Scratch Race

• 500m Time Trial

• Scratch Race

• B Individual Pursuit

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 10:25 CEST, medal events from 18:10 CEST.

Saturday 5th August Medal Events:

• C5 Individual Pursuit

• Team Pursuit

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 10:55 CEST, medal events from 18:25 CEST.

Sunday 6th August Medal Events:

• C1 Individual Pursuit

• C2 500m Time Trial

• C4 500m Time Trial

• Elimination Race 

• B Sprint

• Keirin

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 10:15 CEST, medal events from 17:55 CEST.

Monday 7th August Medal Events:

• C3 500m Time Trial

• C4 Individual Pursuit

• Madison

• C5 Scratch Race

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 12:25 CEST, medal events from 18:10 CEST.

Tuesday 8th August Medal Events:

• Mixed C Team Sprint

• C3 Scratch Race

• C1/2 Scratch Race

• Points Race

• Mixed B Tandem Team Sprint 

How to watch:

• Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 13:25 CEST, medal events from 18:10 CEST.

Wednesday 9th August Medal Events:

• Sprint

• Omnium Final (Points Race)

How to watch:

Live on Eurosport/GCN+ from 18:20 CEST.

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Friday fun 🕺

Lorena Wiebes giving her race numbers to fans 

Most stacked startline selfie of all time?

No idea how Yara Kastelijn kept her bike up here

And Yara celebrating with her parents

It's all in the details for the Yellow Jersey

Lidl-Trek are clearly enjoying their new sponsor

Marlen Reusser keeping herself cool in the hot seat

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That’s all 👋

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