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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 readToday\u2019s stage was the longest in the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, with a strong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4709,39096,99,5,8655,98,10425,39095,30755],"class_list":["post-62932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-be040927-7130-42f0-9f92-732a09442d61","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-8","tag-sponsored-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62932","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=62932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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1 min readToday\u2019s stage was the longest in the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, with a strong General Classification battle in the final kilometers of the 172 kilometer stage.Bicycling\u2019s expert staff breaks down few marginal gains we\u2019ve spotted in this Tour that will actually add fun to your ride as well as make you a more efficient rider.Not every marginal gain has to be serious: Swapping your caffeinated gel for a cold Coke is TDFF-racer approved, and little rituals like tightening laces before a sprint can give you better control and a mental reset.<\/p>\n