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Since getting hooked on pro cycling while watching Lance Armstrong win the 1993 U.S. Pro Championship in Philadelphia, longtime Bicycling contributor Whit Yost has raced on Belgian cobbles, helped build a European pro team, and piloted that team from Malaysia to Mont Ventoux as an assistant director sportif. These days, he lives with his wife and son in Pennsylvania, spending his days serving as an assistant middle school principal and his nights playing Dungeons & Dragons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 min readStage 2 was flat and fast, and Lidl Trek\u2019s Riejanne Markus almost made it to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4709,37615,99,5,8655,98,10425,37614,30755],"class_list":["post-60597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-eeb1833c-e964-42b8-992f-dce593e9f59d","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-france","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-3","tag-shorttitle-results-of-the-2026-tour-de-france-femme-stage-2","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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1 min readStage 2 was flat and fast, and Lidl Trek\u2019s Riejanne Markus almost made it to the finish in a 40-kilometer solo breakaway that was caught just meters shy of the line. Lorena Wiebes stayed in yellow with another sprint victory.Bicycling\u2019s expert staff did a deep dive on how Markus was able to successfully hold off a peloton of pros thanks to her excellent position on bike\u2014and how our readers can work on building their core strength to do the same.Core strength helps riders keep pressure off of their hands and put down more power on the bike\u2014don\u2019t neglect those planks! Even simply bringing attention to your core as you ride can help make you stronger. <\/p>\n