{"id":570588,"date":"2026-08-01T17:21:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/570588\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T17:21:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T17:21:32","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-2-preview-the-first-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/570588\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 2 Preview: The First Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s up to the sprint teams to control the break today.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-2-Profile-2026.jpg\" data-loaded=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-2-Profile-2026.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Published August 1, 2026 09:14AM<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2, Aigle to Gen\u00e8ve 147.9km \/ 1,750m\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Stage 2 of the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-content-link text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/tour-de-france-femmes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a> avec Zwift, at least on paper, is one for the sprinters, but they\u2019ll have to earn it.<\/p>\n<p>The rolling route from Aigle to Geneva features five categorized climbs, though none are long enough on paper to seriously threaten the fastest riders if their teams keep the race under control.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest obstacle comes midway through the stage with the C\u00f4te de Savigny (2.5km at 5%), before a series of shorter climbs, including the punchy C\u00f4te de Bougy-Villars (900m at 10.4%) to test the legs in the final 50km.<\/p>\n<p>The terrain should entice breakaways, but the profile gradually eases as the race approaches Geneva. Can anyone stop Wiebes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s up to the sprint teams to control the break today. Published August 1, 2026 09:14AM Stage 2,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":570589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,18786,105,258022,10825],"class_list":["post-570588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-tour-de-france-femmes","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}