{"id":578709,"date":"2026-08-08T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578709\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T16:28:11","slug":"defending-champion-pauline-ferrand-prevot-pulls-out-of-womens-tour-de-france-after-feeling-unwell-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/578709\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t pulls out of Women&#8217;s Tour de France after feeling unwell | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SISTERON, France (AP) \u2014 Defending champion <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tour-de-france-women-ferrandprevot-d84335ad4b736f9388452386484880ef\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t<\/a> pulled out of the Women&#8217;s Tour de France ahead of Saturday&#8217;s eighth and penultimate stage after feeling unwell.<\/p>\n<p>The French rider&#8217;s Visma-Lease a Bike team said <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/visma_lab_women\/status\/2086044888294928607\" rel=\"nofollow\">on X<\/a> that the decision to pull her out of the race was made after consultation with the team&#8217;s medical staff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, Pauline was not feeling well this morning,\u201d the team said. \u201cIt has been decided that she will not start today. We wish Pauline a speedy recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/olympics-2024-paris-summer-games-mountain-bike-b1e0a9dd2a5b4de5ae5aa8b1224a3738\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic champion in mountain biking<\/a> at the Paris Olympics in 2024, she won the Women&#8217;s Tour de France on her debut last year.<\/p>\n<p>She was in 14th place overall heading into Stage 8, a flat 172-kilometer (107-mile) route from Sisteron in southeast France to Nice made for sprinters.<\/p>\n<p>Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney was in the overall lead after <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tour-de-france-women-stage-7-a016b81f8b0181ff8df5cbe468a02246\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taking the yellow jersey<\/a> from Marlen Reusser with a brilliant solo climb to victory up Mont Ventoux on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>AP sports: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get any of our free email newsletters \u2014 news headlines, obituaries, sports, and more.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beloitdailynews.com\/newsletters\/\" class=\"btn btn-primary\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Explore newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SISTERON, France (AP) \u2014 Defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9v\u00f4t pulled out of the Women&#8217;s Tour de France ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578710,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2175,85,46,105,41572,261643],"class_list":["post-578709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-cycling","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france","tag-women-tour-de-france-stage-8-ferrandprevot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578709","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=578709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}