{"id":793044,"date":"2026-07-10T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793044\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T15:36:12","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-2026-stage-8-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/793044\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes 2026 stage 8 preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 8: Sisteron &#8211; NiceDate: August 8, 2026Distance: 171.9kmElevation gain: 1420 metresStart time: 13:40 CETFinish time: 17:43 CET<\/p>\n<p>Image 1 of 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/y5QHoVAt32fGNFC7JvgTMH.jpg\" alt=\"Profiles for the 2026 Tour de France Femmes\"   class=\"image-wrapped__image image__image\" loading=\"lazy\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/y5QHoVAt32fGNFC7JvgTMH.jpg\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/y5QHoVAt32fGNFC7JvgTMH.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/y5QHoVAt32fGNFC7JvgTMH.jpg\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"\/>Profile of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes stage 8(Image credit: ASO)<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GdG6jPMxi2Cx2sdwBk9ioR.jpg\" alt=\"Stage 8 map, Tour de France Femmes 2026\"   class=\"image-wrapped__image image__image\" loading=\"lazy\" data-normal=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GdG6jPMxi2Cx2sdwBk9ioR.jpg\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GdG6jPMxi2Cx2sdwBk9ioR.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GdG6jPMxi2Cx2sdwBk9ioR.jpg\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" data-slice-image=\"true\"\/>Stage 8 map, Tour de France Femmes 2026(Image credit: \u00a9GEOATLAS)<\/p>\n<p id=\"elk-174254e2-7c32-11f1-b2b6-75a4ad826da8\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Stage 8, the longest stage at 171.9 kilometres, heads south towards Nice where a short steep wall in the city centre, with ramps up to 13.6%, 6km from the finish may well prevent a final sprint.<\/p>\n<p aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\">Starting in Sisteron, the route follows the Route Napol\u00e9on for the opening 49 kilometres, before turning westward, tracing the course of the River Var, to tackle the climbs of Col des Robines and Col de Toutes Aures, the latter topping at 95 kilometres to go. A long descent towards the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur follows with two more climbs, C\u00f4te de Colomars and C\u00f4te de la Ginesti\u00e8re with 7.7 kilometres to go before the finale on the Promenade des Anglais.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-climbs\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\"\/>ClimbsCol des Robines (cat. 4, 2.6km at 4.6%), km. 61Col de Toutes Aures (cat. 4, 6.4km at 3.1%), km. 76.5C\u00f4te de Colomars (cat. 4, 1.4km at 5.4%), km. 154.7C\u00f4te de la Ginesti\u00e8re (cat. 4, 2.5km at 4.4%), km. 164.2<a id=\"elk-sprints\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\"\/>SprintsPuget-Th\u00e9niers, km. 105.7 &#8211; points only to first 15 riders<a id=\"elk-seasonal\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"kiosq-b\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 8: Sisteron &#8211; NiceDate: August 8, 2026Distance: 171.9kmElevation gain: 1420 metresStart time: 13:40 CETFinish time: 17:43 CET&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":793045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-793044","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\/793044","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=793044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/793045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}