00:00It's the Queen stage, Caudema Land will not lie, the legs will speak. I think it will be a really exciting race to watch.
00:21Stage 8 of the Tour de France Famavic Zwift is underway and now we'll start to see how this race will unfold.
00:30Kim, how do you feel before the Queen stage of the Tour de France?
00:33Very excited.
00:35Kim LaCourt through the middle, it's going to be a stage win for the Mauritian champion!
00:41I think I'm still dreaming.
00:42Kim LaCourt is the yellow jersey of the Tour de France.
00:47We know what's coming, we know it's going to be a suffer face, we know it's going to be very hard but we will not give up until the end.
00:54Other teams don't know what's coming.
00:57Pauline Franprevaux is driving away.
01:01Pauline Franprevaux in her first edition of the Tour de France Famavic Zwift has left everybody behind for dust.
01:10What an attack!
01:12The whole tour kind of revolves around Claude Maddalene.
01:26You will have to stay vigilant and concentrate throughout the day.
01:56Who do you fear the most?
01:58Who do I fear the most?
02:01All the same, of course. Most important is that we enjoy the racing and the fight with each other.
02:13A monster day of climbing awaits with the hors-categorie Côte de la Madeleine towering at 2,000 metres, a summit finish designed to explode the race.
02:26Attention, attention for the departure. The departure is done.
02:31The Côte de la Madeleine kicked off the carnage.
02:34Attack from Marcus, she goes clear.
02:37An initial shot fired and the peloton began to splinter. In Polkadot since day one, Elise Chabby had work to do to maintain the jersey and anyone hoping to follow Skiband's lead would want to make a move.
02:48And now it's the rider, former French champion, Lovita Musique, who is coming across in Schmolders.
02:56Now these diminutive climbers who can really take time because they are so lightweight when the roads go up, they soar.
03:05Big attack comes from yesterday's stage winner.
03:09Mavis Squiband has decided that she needs to be in the breakaway.
03:12And I think she's about to make junction, those time gaps.
03:17She's made the junction, she's just going to sit there and hide.
03:20Shabby goes and Skiband says, oh okay then, fair enough.
03:29Shabby stopping Skiband from drawing to within one point of her in the standings, the FDJ Suez rider instead opening up a 14 point cushion.
03:36The gap ballooned over three minutes to put Evita Musique into the virtual yellow jersey.
03:41So Canyon scram up the pace for their leader to limit the gap.
03:44It proved to be a dangerous descent.
03:46The yellow jersey crashes, the yellow jersey goes into the ditch at the side of the road.
03:56She goes so hot into that corner.
03:59From leading the pack to almost a minute behind, the Mauritian champion not the only one to toil on the descent.
04:06Only about 20 remaining in the first peloton.
04:10One of those was a very relaxed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, targeting a different shade of yellow.
04:16Lecourt back.
04:18But what did the crash and effort take from her, especially after admitting she'd been struggling physically the past few stages.
04:24So the appetizer over, now time for the main course.
04:27Pedaling forwards, 28 kilometers an hour, dragging this race out.
04:36An effort that brings Kashi Niwe Doma into a position to win this yellow jersey.
04:42Here we are, onto the Col de la Madeleine, 18.6 kilometers, 8.1%.
04:49Get ready, this is the showdown climb.
04:51The least shabby says goodbye.
04:59Oops, pulls the plug.
05:02Maeve is squibbing, the legs have given out.
05:05No surprise after successive stage successes,
05:09and Shabby already securing the polka dots tomorrow.
05:12But while Ferrand-Prévot kicked on, others were feeling Madeleine's bite.
05:16This was now the time to grab the bike by the horns at go, if you could.
05:20Evita Muzic now starts to crack.
05:23Valerius can't go with Niamh Fischer-Black as she puts in an even bigger surge onto this steep section.
05:30Sara Giganti starts from the yellow jersey who now sits up.
05:39Here comes Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
05:43Ferrand-Prévot reaches the front group of riders.
05:46Look at the way that Royac is clawing her way back onto the wheel of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot.
05:53And meanwhile behind, look at the gap that's opening up to Vollering.
05:57Vollering cannot ride now.
06:00She's on her own.
06:02Ferrand-Prévot into the virtual lead, but one of the stars of Paris 2024 wasn't finished yet.
06:07I just seen Rickera pulls the pin. She hands over to Sara Giganti.
06:14She's got the best climber so far on this mountain. Look at Ferrand-Prévot. Now she goes into time trial mode.
06:23Ferrand-Prévot now at the front of this eighth stage.
06:31But look at that. Castellane can't hold the wheel of Ferrand-Prévot.
06:35And Niamh Fischer-Black is up to sprint.
06:37It's game over for Niamh Fischer-Black. Pauline Ferrand-Prévot with five kilometers to go decides.
06:50It's time to go solo. It's time to get the yellow jersey.
06:54French fireworks on the Madeleine. The Queen stage is gonna be won by the Queen of French Cycling.
07:05It's a priceless performance by Pauline. We crown the stage winner and the yellow jersey.
07:11The yellow jersey.
07:16I've just tried to go as fast as possible and to rally the arrival without me returning.
07:23Just in managing my efforts. It's incredible.
07:29If I came back on the road, it's to participate in the Tour de France.
07:33It's to try to win one day.
07:35And this victory today, it's a sign that I made the good choice and that this team is incredible.
07:45And I'm really very, very happy today.
07:51The Olympic mountain bike champion said she was here to learn.
07:55The Apprentice has mastered the Tour in just eight days.
07:58Ferrand-Prévot dominating the Tour de Madeleine.
08:01Oceanic duo Gigante and Fischer-Black on the podium.
08:05The 33-year-old with a royal performance on the Queen stage to storm into the yellow jersey.
08:11Ferrand-Prévot has blown the GC to smithereens.
08:15Two minutes, 37 in hand.
08:18The last two champions obliterated.
08:21More than three minutes down.
08:23Lorena Wiebes picking up a couple of points on the road.
08:26The Dutch speedster all but over the line as she seeks to secure her first Tour green jersey.
08:30Xabi still on course to go wire to wire as the Tour's Queen of the Mountains still work to do but 14 points over Skibane into the final.
08:40Vinka Vinka has given herself a great chance of claiming the white jersey.
08:45The picnic posts NL riders lead over Julie Bego from seconds to over eight minutes.
08:50Ferrand-Prévot will hope tomorrow is nothing but a procession.
08:56Can anyone produce a miracle?
08:59Or will France crown their first home winner of the Tour de France des femmes?
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