{"id":840291,"date":"2026-08-01T11:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840291\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T11:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T11:47:10","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-1-live-all-the-action-from-the-opening-stage-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/840291\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes stage 1 LIVE: All the action from the opening stage in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"

2026-08-01T11:46:07.559Z<\/p>\n

There’s a real party atmosphere at the start in Lausanne. Today is Swiss National Day, the national holiday of Switzerland. A bike race is as great way to celebrate.<\/p>\n

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\"LAUSANNE,\n<\/p>\n

(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

2026-08-01T11:42:29.825Z<\/p>\n

SD Worx are on stage at the sign-on and it will be interesting to see how they race the Tour and stage 1. It could be a great chance for Lorena Wiebes but if the racing explodes then Lotte Kopecky could have a chance.<\/p>\n

2026-08-01T11:42:12.332Z<\/p>\n

We’re counting down to the start of the opening stage, with the riders signing on at the start in Lausanne, Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The sun is out and with the yellow jersey up for grabs at the fdinish, it should be a intense, highly-fought stage.<\/p>\n

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Cyclingnews in on the ground in Lausanne, with Matilda Price and Dani Ostanek speaking to riders and teams for all the latests news.<\/p>\n

2026-08-01T11:41:41.407Z<\/p>\n

We will have updates on all the action of today’s first stage and every stage of the Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n

2026-08-01T11:41:20.398Z<\/p>\n

Hello and welcome to stage 1 of the Tour de France Femmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-08-01T11:46:07.559Z There’s a real party atmosphere at the start in Lausanne. Today is Swiss National Day, the national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-840291","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\/840291","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=840291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}