Tour De France Femmes 2025: Stage Eight Heads For Col De La Madeleine Summit Finish – Live

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Here’s a reminder of nan top 10 connected GC aft shape seven:

1. Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal), 22hrs 28mins 31secs

2. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike), +26secs

3. Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon/SRAM), +30secs

4. Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), +31secs

5. Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx Protime), +35secs

6. Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck), +1min 4secs

7. Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly), +1min 9secs

8. Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal), +1min 14secs

9. Évita Muzic (FDJ-Suez), +1min 35secs

10. Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez), +1min 35secs

Here is nan way floor plan of stage eight of nan Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift:

Stage eight: Chambéry to Saint François Longchamp – Col de la Madeleine, 112km

Here’s a look astatine today’s stage, Saturday 2 August: Chambéry to Saint François Longchamp – Col de la Madeleine, 111.9km, pinch nan title head of nan Tour de France Femmes, Marion Rousse:

There’ll beryllium nary respite connected what’s nan queen shape of nan 2025 edition. It will caput into nan Bauges massif consecutive away, pinch nan first awesome trouble coming connected nan measurement retired of Chambéry successful nan shape of nan Col de Plainpalais (13.2km astatine 6.3%). After crossing nan little demanding Col du Frêne, nan title will scope nan Maurienne and tackle nan toughest flank of nan Madeleine. Extending to 18.6km, pinch regular changes successful gradient (averaging 8.1%) and a unsmooth surface, this climb will supply plentifulness of opportunities to create gaps.

Preamble

Stage eight of nan Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is nan queen’s stage – regarded arsenic nan astir challenging upland shape of a multi-day race. It often featurs nan highest climbs and astir important elevation gain. Today, nan peloton will thrust 111.9km from Chambéry to Saint François Longchamp – Col de la Madeleine, taking successful much than 3,500 meters of climbing, making it a sadistic time out. The first ascent of nan time will travel astatine 13km, pinch nan class 1 Col de Plainpalais (13.2km astatine 6.3%). The crisp Côte de Saint-Georges-d’Hurtières comes duing nan 2nd half of racing, and past it’s each spell towards nan decorativeness astatine nan acme of nan imposing Col de la Madeleine (18.6 km astatine 8.1%, rising to complete 2,000m supra oversea level).

It’s nan penultimate time of nan Tour, truthful immoderate GC contenders who want to make their people will surely person plans for this decisive stage. While Kim Le Court Pienaar (AG Insurance-Soudal) hung connected to nan yellowish jersey yesterday aft being dropped connected nan last climb, she’ll look stiff title from Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike), Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon/SRAM), Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) and Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx Protime) who are each biting astatine her heels (none are further than 35secs down nan maillot jaune). Le Court Pienaar’s teammate and powerful climber Sarah Gigante might fancy nan shape triumph and nan Mauritian rider said effusively yesterday astir her colleague’s spot coming into this upland stage.

Maëva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) made it 2 victories successful a statement yesterday, truthful I’m excited to spot what she’s sewage successful shop today. Shirin van Anrooij and Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek) Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez), Silke Smulders and Mavi García (Liv Alula Jayco) are worthy keeping an oculus connected successful position of a imaginable breakaway.

Today’s action will footwear disconnected astatine 1.45pm CET/12.45pm BST. Here is Jeremy Whittle’s shape 7 title study from Chambéry: