Join Luke McLaughlin for live updates as the Tour de France Femmes rolls into Belgium
Côte de la Roche-aux-Faucons ,” Lorena Wiebes told Eurosport yesterday, after her SD Worx–Protime teammate Demi Vollering won the individual time trial. On which note, today looks like it could be a tough one to control, as it combines some of the terrain from the Amstel Gold Race and Liège–Bastogne–Liège.
Today’s stage begins in the Netherlands and finishes in Belgium, taking in some famous one-day Classics territory on the way. The area around Limburg and Valkenburg includes those rare things – significant hills within the Dutch border – before the race rolls south and into the northern reaches of Belgium.
There are eight categorised climbs on a very up-and-down route, 122km in length, with one intermediate sprint coming at Pepinster after 67.5km of racing. Three cat-fours, three cat-threes and two cat-twos are included in the day’s climbs and there will be plenty of riders hoping to get in a breakaway.
More on that to follow shortly, but for now, here is Jeremy Whittle’s report of Tuesday’s stages two and three, a road race and time trial combo in which the reigning champion, Demi Vollering, took a step towards back-to-back
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