{"id":731087,"date":"2026-08-08T03:32:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731087\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:32:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:32:33","slug":"did-vollering-and-reusser-mark-themselves-out-on-ventoux-questions-from-stage-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731087\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Vollering and Reusser mark themselves out on Ventoux? Questions from Stage 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/tdff-stage-7-5728.jpg\" alt=\"Did Vollering and Reusser mark themselves out on Ventoux? Questions from Stage 7\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/tour-de-france-femmes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">The race leader asked Vollering to stop attacking, but would it have made any difference? <\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Caley Fretz\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CF_PROFILE-150x150.png\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Gruber Images, Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>Fortune favored the bold on Friday, as Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney tore up the slopes of Mont Ventoux and took enough time out of Marlen Reusser and Demi Vollering to slip on the yellow jersey on the barren top of the Giant of Provence. The Tour de France was once again turned upside down and posed a fresh set of questions.<\/p>\n<p>Did Vollering and Reusser mark themselves out of this Tour?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They certainly didn\u2019t do themselves any favors as Niewiadoma-Phinney launched up Mont Ventoux. As the gap stretched, Vollering attacked a number of times, and whenever you have two riders attacking each other, average speed tends to be lower. That\u2019s not good when your rival is headed up the road at a steady clip.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was difficult to tell, in real time, whether both Vollering and Reusser were simply on their limit, but quotes from Reusser after the race point at a significant amount of game playing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"6a761e670c7e69256773f32d\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/tour-de-france-femmes\/\" title=\"Tour de France Femmes\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f295a7 tour-de-france-femmes\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/kasia-niewiadoma\/\" title=\"Kasia Niewiadoma\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f292a8 kasia-niewiadoma\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kasia Niewiadoma<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/demi-vollering\/\" title=\"Demi Vollering\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29141 demi-vollering\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demi Vollering<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/marlen-reusser\/\" title=\"Marlen Reusser\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f2933b marlen-reusser\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marlen Reusser<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes The race leader asked Vollering to stop attacking, but would it have made any&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731087","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\/731087","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=731087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}