{"id":25789,"date":"2025-07-26T20:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25789\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T20:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T20:35:07","slug":"vos-claims-tour-de-france-femmes-yellow-jersey-in-dramatic-opening-stage-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/25789\/","title":{"rendered":"Vos claims Tour de France Femmes yellow jersey in dramatic opening stage | Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Marianne Vos claimed victory on the opening stage of the 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/tour-de-france-femmes\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a> \u2013 and the overall leader\u2019s yellow jersey \u2013 after a dramatic finale in Plumelec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Vos\u2019s Visma Lease a bike teammate, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot, had looked set to take the stage on home soil after making a late break for the finish. The French rider ran out of steam, however, and Vos overtook her teammate with Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) threatening to grab victory and the maillot jaune instead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">\u201cI didn\u2019t now if Pauline was still hanging [on] in the finish, but in the end I sprinted a bit with Kim,\u201d Vos said, praising her teammate\u2019s effort on the hilly 78.8km route from Vannes. \u201cI\u2019m really grateful to the team and to Pauline,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/aug\/18\/tour-de-france-femmes-kasia-niewiadoma-demi-vollering\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The defending champion<\/a>, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon\/Sram Zondacrypto) came fourth, 10 seconds behind Vos. Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez) \u2013 who lost the overall title by four seconds in last year\u2019s race \u2013 finished fifth in Brittany, 13 seconds off the lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Marlen Reusser (Movistar), considered a contender in the general classification race, withdrew after crashing at the foot of the C\u00f4te de Cadoudal climb. The Swiss rider, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/jul\/13\/giro-ditalia-cycling-elisa-longo-borghini-liane-lippert-stage-eight-report\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">finished second to Elisa Longo Borghini<\/a> at the recent Giro d\u2019Italia Women, was one of around 10 riders caught in the crash some 30km from the finish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-16w5gq9\">Britain\u2019s Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic-PostNL) finished in 10th, 19 seconds behind Vos. The race stays in Brittany for Sunday\u2019s second stage, with a hilly 110.4km ride from the port city of Brest to Quimper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marianne Vos claimed victory on the opening stage of the 2025 Tour de France Femmes \u2013 and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-25789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}