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TdFF Stage 6 report: ‘Time trial mode’ nets a huge win for Kerbaol

Your cultural guide to the 2024 Tour de France Femmes: stage 7

Preview: 2024 Tour de France Femmes, stage 7

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Gallery: Two dramatic days as the Tour de France Femmes passes through Belgium

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge The Tour de France Femmes is creating space for women in the bike industry

Blanka Vas looks out shyly from behind the podium at the 2024 Tour de France Femmes. She has a wide smile and her eyes are alight as a winner's medal dangles around her neck. The yellow backdrop of the podium frames her to the right half of the image.

Two weeks after Olympics near miss, Blanka Vas her moment

Demi Vollering, in yellow jersey and helmet, talks to teammate Lorena Wiebes after stage 5 of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes. Vollering's face is drawn and dirty, and she seems still in shock from the events late-stage that saw her crash and lose time, and her race lead. Wiebes faces toward Vollering, away from the camera.

Confusion and chaos for SD Worx-Protime as Vollering is left behind while Vas wins

Kasia Niewiadoma waves to the crowd on the podium of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes after accepting the yellow jersey of race leader.

This wasn’t how Niewiadoma wanted to take yellow, but the race goes on

TdFF stage 5 report: Vas takes the win but Vollering loses yellow to Niewiadoma after a dramatic crash

Preview: 2024 Tour de France Femmes, stage 6

Your cultural guide to the 2024 Tour de France Femmes: stage 6

Puck Pieterse leads yellow jersey Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma in a late-race break on stage 4 of the 2024 Tour de France Femmes. All three are soaked through and water sprays up from their tires; the shot is slightly blurred to accentuate speed.

EscapeCollective Paywall Badge Often a solo star, Puck Pieterse’s first road win was a full team effort