00:12What do you think about the parkour? The Mont Ventoux should be the key of the race?
00:17Yeah, the climb is amazing. It's so iconic.
00:20I can only imagine what it's going to be like during the race with all the fans.
00:28Super happy and very amazing for women to be tackling such a beautiful climb.
00:35Mont Ventoux is the most spectacular climb there is, the poetry of the place as much as anything.
00:42Chris Froome, they're pointing to his bike, he needs a bike.
00:47Well, this I have never ever seen before.
00:52These legendary climbs are part of tour history and so many great stories on Mont Ventoux.
00:59Head-to-head, Healy and Valentin Paripont. Who's going to take it on Ventoux?
01:05When planning the route for the Tour de France Femme avec Zwift, we needed to go and brush up against
01:10a legendary summit like this
01:11because it will help women's cycling go a little bit further into the history of our sport.
01:32The mammoth summit of this Tour de France Femme, a chance to step into cycling history up the legendary Mont
01:38Ventoux.
01:39While intimidating, the slopes averaging close to 9% offer opportunities to climb the GC.
01:45While just before Mont Chauve, the Côte de la Suzette can offer some early damage.
01:53Early attacks snuffed out by an otherwise united peloton.
01:57The pace close to 40km an hour and Puck Perissa took advantage again five points on the first summit
02:03and closer to securing the polka dots for good.
02:07A breakaway formed with 80km to go, 11 strong, including last place in the GC, Romina Hinojosa of Lotto Intermarché.
02:16The peloton though never allowing them more than three minutes.
02:19And by the Côte de la Suzette summit, it was down to 90 seconds.
02:31The cost of the effort saw Hinojosa and Mia Griffin dropped just before passing through Mourosennes,
02:37nestled at the foot of the Ventoux, giving the peloton its first close-up view of the Giant of Provence.
02:53The road rising before the official ascent had even begun.
02:57The peloton no more, with riders scattered right along the road.
03:01This when the real reckoning had arrived.
03:06There's your vital statistics, that's what the climb looks like.
03:09On the right-hand side, Geri now starts to lead and look, the team of Movistar have done everything they
03:16needed to do.
03:18Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is in difficulty and distance. Ferrand-Prévot is in distance.
03:23Kim Le Courpiennard is in difficulty in Coupe Le Tour now.
03:28The yellow jersey grouped to the fore.
03:30Niwe Adoma Fini had white jersey Nedder Meyer for company, while Rueg paced for her AF Education Oatly leader Kerbal.
03:37Roycer and Vollering in contrast shorn of their teammates and the latter decided enough was enough.
03:45Here goes Vollering, wanting to make a move. Long way out.
03:49This is a long, long way out from Demi Vollering.
03:5210.9km out and Vollering has decided, now's the time to smash it.
04:00Immediate reaction from Marlon Roycer.
04:0320 seconds, 20 seconds between Le Criotet and Nizermayer.
04:0920 seconds, 20 seconds between Le Criotet and Nizermayer.
04:14Here goes Fini.
04:15Big attack.
04:16Cash in, Niwe Adoma Fini.
04:18She goes and she decides, well, I'm gonna go on the attack now.
04:24She's decided to try and leave everybody behind.
04:27And no reaction from Vollering and no reaction from Marlon Roycer.
04:33What a spectacular attack.
04:38The 2024 champion hovered within reach for a long time, but the pole gradually and relentlessly pulled away.
04:45Neither rival reacting nor collaborating.
04:48A magical moment, an attack that went beyond competition to something far more personal.
04:55I looked right and I saw my parents.
04:57Like, they made a surprise visit and I could see my dad crying and I was like, I just need
05:02to make them proud, you know.
05:06I never really, like, chased the victory for the sake of winning.
05:10I chased it for the sake of this beautiful feeling.
05:13And I came here to Mont Ventoux with my friends, with my husband and we rode the climb three times.
05:18We had fun, we sprinted, we did efforts and it was just about this.
05:25From that moment, I just wanted to have that feeling coming here as well.
05:28This, like, pure joy of riding, feeling like a kid, you know.
05:36Just love every pedal stroke.
05:39Get ready to greet her over the top of the final ramp.
05:44This rider has been on the attack for over nine kilometers.
05:48Cashier crushes the Vontu.
05:59Follering is fighting to keep herself in with a chance of winning this race in Nice on Sunday.
06:07She ramps over the top of the final part of the Mont Ventoux and she comes in at 1.17.
06:15Royce's attempt at defending the yellow jersey has been a defiant one.
06:20It may well have cost Demi Vollering the race, but Royce is still there.
06:25Longer Borghini crosses the line at 1.44.
06:29Royce crosses the line now.
06:31She loses 30 seconds to Demi Vollering.
06:50A magical performance worthy of a mythic finish.
06:54Vollering conquered the Tourmalet and Alpe d'Oise.
06:57Cassia, the Queen of the Vontu.
06:59And 40th time lucky the Poles celebrating her first ever Tour de France fan stage victory.
07:05Vollering powered to second with Royce dropping to fourth after a late dash for Longer Borghini.
07:11Cassia back in yellow for the first time since she won the title in 2024 by four seconds.
07:16Now she holds 15 seconds over Demi with two stages left to ride.
07:20Royce slips the third 39 seconds off the pace but holds two minutes over the Italian champion in the fight
07:27for the podium.
07:31Lorena Wiebes glad to have survived and will now be targeting a chance to rubber stamp her bid for a
07:38second successive green jersey on stage eight.
07:4258 seconds the gap back to the Corpina.
07:47Puck Piresa another with a strong hand in her bid to become the Tour Queen of the Mountains.
07:5434 points her cushion over Noskova.
07:57Yet Demi and Cassia just a few more points adrift.
08:01What a day for Canyon Schramm.
08:04Neddermeyer with a strong grip on the white jersey after playing her part in her leader's triumph.
08:11Second place Blasi with over a minute to make up while Lidltrek's Holmgren is at nearly three minutes.
08:19The GC can try and rest their legs before the final push during the last chance for the sprint teams
08:25to rev their engines on the penultimate stage.
08:32I'm really glad.
08:32Yeah, thank you for having me a chance.
08:35This is going to work out.
