{"id":849595,"date":"2026-08-07T16:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849595\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T16:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T16:34:16","slug":"really-stupid-from-both-of-us-marlen-reusser-regrets-mark-out-tactics-with-demi-vollering-as-yellow-jersey-sails-away-at-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849595\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Really stupid from both of us’ \u2013 Marlen Reusser regrets mark-out tactics with Demi Vollering as yellow jersey sails away at Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlen Reusser (Movistar) has described the tactical duel with Demi Vollering (FDJ United-SUEZ) on the slopes of Mont Ventoux as “really stupid from both of us”, as the pair let Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM) sail away to the stage win<\/a> and the yellow jersey at the Tour de France Femmes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Reusser had started the day in yellow and was holding firm as the GC group shrunk to just that leading trio once again on the lower slopes of Ventoux, but when Niewiadoma launched an attack 9.7 kilometres from the top, the race flipped tactically.<\/p>\n

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Vollering put in a series of accelerations that ate into Niewiadoma’s slim advantage without ever fully shutting the gap, and as the pair struggled to come to an agreement over collaboration, the 2024 Tour winner managed to steadily grow her advantage.<\/p>\n

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By the exposed upper slopes, she had almost two minutes in hand, eventually crossing the line 1:16 clear of a late-charging Vollering, and 1:46 clear of fourth-placed Reusser, who had to hand over the yellow jersey to the Polish rider.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it was\u2026 honestly I didn\u2019t understand fully\u2026 I think the problem was that Demi and me were marking each other too much, really stupid from both of us,” Reusser told a group of reporters at the finish.<\/p>\n

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“Demi kept attacking super hard, I kept telling her ‘don\u2019t do this, let\u2019s just ride’ because we had Kasia well in sight, we could for sure close it this time, but if we do bing bang, bing bang, we get ourselves a nice portion of lactic acid again and again in the legs and it’s becoming harder and harder to ride for both of us.<\/p>\n

“It was not too good from us and very good from Kasia.”<\/p>\n

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