The Olympic silver medallist Marlen Reusser of Team SD Worx won stage four of the Tour de France Femmes
Marianne Vos has conceded that she is unlikely to win the, despite reaching the midway point of the week-long race with her overall lead intact. “You have to be realistic with the climbs coming this weekend,” Vos said of the race’s mountainous finale in the Vosges mountains. “Normally, the GC riders will be very strong and take a lot of time, so it’s a different kind of racing at the weekend. I’m very happy to wear the yellow jersey now.
“The goal was to make a hard race,” Reusser said. “When we entered the first gravel sections, we weren’t always that well-positioned but slowly but surely, we rode from the front and created the situation we wanted.Photograph: Getty Images
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