{"id":850107,"date":"2026-08-08T02:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850107\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:34:09","slug":"kiara-lylyk-forced-to-abandon-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/850107\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiara Lylyk forced to abandon Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bummer news for Guelph, Ont.\u2019s Kiara Lylyk at the Tour de France Femmes. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayenneprocycling.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mayenne Monbana My Pie<\/a> pro cyclist did not start Friday\u2019s Stage 7 to Mont Ventoux because of lingering back pain.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old enjoyed a solid start to the race, featuring prominently on <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/feature\/kiara-lylyk-goes-on-the-attack-to-kick-off-tour-de-france-femmes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stage 1<\/a> when she and fellow Canuck Alison Jackson of St Michel\u2013Preference Home\u2013Auber93 roder together in an attempt to bridge across to the day\u2019s breakaway.<\/p>\n<p>Lingering back pain<\/p>\n<p>However, some back problems have made it impossible for her to contine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am feeling pretty disappointed after going well during my altitude training block,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen I got to the race I didn\u2019t feel right on the bike. It wasn\u2019t until I was trying to bridge to the break on Day 1 that I noticed my back was really starting to flare up. Since then it hurt each time I tried to put out any power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/kiara-lylyk-in-white-jersey-in-volta-a-portugal-feminina\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kiara Lylyk in white jersey in Volta a Portugal Feminina<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s still plenty of season left for the talented Canadian\u2013who has had a great 2026, with several impressive results this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m resting up now and will get some help before trying to get back to prepare for the rest of the season,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 7 recap<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s queen stage on <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/kasia-niewiadoma-conquers-mont-ventoux-to-take-tour-de-france-lead\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mont Ventoux shook up the general classification<\/a> as former Tour winner Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney rode away from her rivals to claim both the stage dub and the yellow jersey. The Canyon-SRAM rider attacked with just under 10 km remaining on the climb and steadily increased her advantage while Demi Vollering and Marlen Reusser were unable to work together effectively in the chase.<\/p>\n<p>Vollering eventually dropped Reusser in the closing kilometres to move into second overall, with Elisa Longo Borghini also passing the fading Swiss rider before the finish. Isabella Holmgren was the top Canadian in 10th on the stage and sits in ninth overall.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is the penultimate stage of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, and it\u2019s a long one. Stage 8 goes from Sisteron to Nice for a total of 171.9km.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bummer news for Guelph, Ont.\u2019s Kiara Lylyk at the Tour de France Femmes. The Mayenne Monbana My Pie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":850108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-850107","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\/850107","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=850107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/850108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}