{"id":77931,"date":"2025-08-18T04:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77931\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T04:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T04:55:11","slug":"heartbreak-for-urska-zigart-in-finale-of-tour-de-romandie-feminin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/77931\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartbreak for Ur\u0161ka \u017digart in finale of Tour de Romandie F\u00e9minin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ur\u0161ka \u017digart\u2019s bid for overall victory at the 2025 Tour de Romandie F\u00e9minin ended in heartbreak on the final stage in Aigle. The Slovenian rider of AG Insurance\u2013Soudal entered the 122-km stage with a slim lead over Swiss rider Elise Chabbey (FDJ-SUEZ). However a mistake on a descent allowed Chabbey to overturn the deficit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TamauPogi?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@TamauPogi<\/a> aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de sa compagne <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/urskazigart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@urskazigart<\/a> au terme de la derni\u00e8re \u00e9tape du TDRF <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T0jpb4yes2\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/T0jpb4yes2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tour de Romandie (@TourDeRomandie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TourDeRomandie\/status\/1957044871467770240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 17, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The day featured five categorized climbs, including the punishing Antagnes (1.2 km at 9 per cent), situated just 10 kilometres from the finish. A large breakaway formed early, but in the closing stages, UAE Team ADQ set a furious pace for Paula Blasi, forcing <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/cyclings-royal-couple-zigart-and-pogacar-always-there-for-each-other\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u017digart<\/a> to chase alongside Chabbey and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck). On the final descent, \u017digart went wide on a corner, losing contact with the lead group.<\/p>\n<p>Blanka Vas (SD Worx\u2013Protime) seized the stage victory, crossing the line ahead of Blasi and Chabbey. Chabbey gained crucial seconds in the sprint and on bonuses, ultimately taking the overall title by seven seconds. \u017digart finished second in the general classification, with Kastelijn in third.<\/p>\n<p>Movistar\u2019s Olivia Baril finished 49th overall. Uno-X\u2019s Simone Boilard was the other Canadian racing, but DNS Stage 2.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Results powered by <a title=\"FirstCycling.com\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/race.php?r=16500&amp;y=2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FirstCycling.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ur\u0161ka \u017digart\u2019s bid for overall victory at the 2025 Tour de Romandie F\u00e9minin ended in heartbreak on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-77931","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\/77931","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=77931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}