{"id":40781,"date":"2025-08-02T02:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40781\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T02:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T02:13:07","slug":"two-of-her-teammates-blocked-me-is-that-their-tactics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/40781\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of her teammates blocked me. Is that their tactics?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kim Le Court<\/a> did almost unthinkable to defend her jersey in the seventh stage of Tour de France Femmes<\/a> today, but despite the great news, the Mauritian rider was fuming at the finish line after some questionable actions from her rivals.<\/p>\n

“When I had to let go, I completely exploded,” Le Court admits afterwards. “Then I focused on my values and found my own pace. At the top, I was on my own. I had to ride the descent of my life. I had reconnoitered it a few weeks earlier, so I knew what was coming. But I think I went down 10 times faster than I did then.”<\/p>\n

Le Court didn’t know she was virtually losing her yellow jersey. “I didn’t know about the differences. I was still able to catch up with a lot of girls.”<\/p>\n

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When she rejoined the front, Le Court realized the fierce battle for the overall victory. “Demi (Vollering) had created a gap at a roundabout. I wanted to close the gap, but two of her teammates, Juliette (Labous) and Evita (Muzic), blocked me. That wasn’t nice. I yelled at them to let me through. But that must be tactics according to them, right?”<\/p>\n

The stage 8 will be the queen stage of this year’s edition with a brutal 19-kilometer final climb at 8% – La Madeleine. After her massive effort to stay in yellow today, there’s no doubt Le Court will put up a fight to hang on to the jersey also on this brute of a mountain, but she remains realistic about her own chances against the best climbers in the world.<\/p>\n

Le Court is well-aware AG Insurance – Soudal<\/a> Team has an even better card to play for the GC further minute down the standings: “Although I don’t want to think about that too much right now. We have several cards to play with the team,” she says, referring to her teammate Sarah Gigante.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kim Le Court did almost unthinkable to defend her jersey in the seventh stage of Tour de France…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-40781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40781","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=40781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}