{"id":26992,"date":"2025-07-27T03:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26992\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T03:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T03:55:19","slug":"vos-triumphant-at-womens-tour-de-france-first-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/26992\/","title":{"rendered":"Vos triumphant at women\u2019s Tour de France first stage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Netherland’s Marianne Vos reacts as she crosses the finish line to win the first stage of the Women’s Tour de France on Saturday.Mathieu Pattier\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Cycling great Marianne Vos won the opening stage of the women\u2019s Tour de France with a brilliant late attack on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The 38-year-old Dutchwoman overtook her Visma\u2013Lease a Bike teammate Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot approaching the line, and then held off Mauritian rider Kim Le Court in the closing meters of a grueling uphill finish.<\/p>\n

Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot looked set to win the stage, but the Frenchwoman attacked too early from 600 meters and could not withstand the late surge from Vos, who punched the air with her left fist as she crossed the line.<\/p>\n

Moments later, Vos hugged an exhausted-looking Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot, the Paris-Roubaix winner.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t now if Pauline was still hanging in the finish, but in the end I sprinted a bit with Kim,\u201d Vos said, praising her teammate\u2019s effort. \u201cI\u2019m really grateful to the team and to Pauline.\u201d<\/p>\n

The hilly 78.8-kilometer (48.9-mile) route from Vannes to Plumelec in Brittany featured two small climbs and was completed in 1 hour, 53 minutes, 3 seconds by Vos \u2014 a multiple world champion, a former Olympic road race champion and a silver medalist at last year\u2019s Paris Games.<\/p>\n

Former Olympic time-trial silver medalist Marlen Reusser was one of 10 riders to crash some 30 kilometers from the end. She continued for a while but was clearly struggling and had to abandon the stage.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s second stage from the port city of Brest to Quimper stays in Brittany and is slightly more hilly and longer at 110.4 kilometers.<\/p>\n

The nine-stage race, which ends Aug. 3, began a day before the end of the men\u2019s Tour, set to be won for a fourth time by Slovenian star Tadej Poga\u010dar by a comfortable margin.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s race could be far closer.<\/p>\n

Last year provided the smallest winning margin in the history of the women\u2019s and men\u2019s races, with Polish rider Kasia Niewiadoma beating 2023 champion Demi Vollering by four seconds, and Pauliena Rooijakkers only 10 seconds off the pace in third place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Netherland’s Marianne Vos reacts as she crosses the finish line to win the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,635,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,82,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-26992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-cycling","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}