Demi Vollering mortgages women’s Tour, Remco Evenepoel wins in San Sebastian
Demi Vollering mortgages women’s Tour, Remco Evenepoel wins in San Sebastian
The Tour de France women’s Tour faces the myth of the Tourmalet, and taming it is Dutchwoman Demi Vollering, who takes the yellow jersey and mortgages the overall victory with one stage to go.
Vollering won the seventh stage atop the Col du Tourmalet in the Pyrenees, a mountain that the women’s Grande Boucle had never climbed; and with this feat she snatched the yellow jersey from her Belgian teammate, Lotte Kopecky, on the eve of the big close.
The leader of the SD Worx formation attacked with five kilometers to go and crossed the finish line victorious by nearly two minutes over Poland’s Katarzyna Niewiadoma, while the Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten, the defending winner of the Grande Boucle, collapsed in the final kilometers, finishing third. The two Italian women riders Longo Borghini and Balsamo did not take part in the stage, who withdrew. Tomorrow’s eighth and final stage, an individual time trial with a 22.6-kilometer finish in Pau.
In the men’s field, world champion Remco Evenepoel, of Soudal-Quick Step, won the Clasica San Sebastian, in Spain’s Basque Country, just over a week before the world championships in Scotland. After a sprint with Basque Pello Bilbao, the Belgian star took his third victory in the Basque classic, following those in 2019 and 2022.
