The Swiss star succumbed to a stomach bug on a day where just about everything went wrong for Movistar.
In many ways, it was a surprise that Marlen Reusser (Movistar) even started this year’s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift. She’d rocked up to the pre-race press conference looking decidedly under the weather, then quickly confirmed that she was fighting a stomach bug.
But then she did start Saturday’s opening stage in Vannes, bringing two main questions to the fore. One: Would Reusser get better as the race went on? And two: If she didn’t feel better, how long until she’d abandoned the race?
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