Tour de France Femmes stage 2 LIVE – Charlotte Kool does not start second day

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2025-07-27T11:08:01.434Z

The gap is starting to come down as EF Education-Oatly, Certizit, Visma-Lease a Bike, Live-AlUla-Jayco, Movistar, Uno-X Mobility and AG Insurance-Soudal battle to control the peloton.

2025-07-27T11:05:45.679Z

The gap sits at 1’15” up to the break of Koch and Biannic.

2025-07-27T11:05:28.546Z

Faulkner went down with Dominika Włodarczyk (UAE Team ADQ) as Elena Pirrone (Roland), Sylvie Swinkels (Roland) and Thalita De Jong (Human Powered Health) are gtting back in after their crash.

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Crash!

Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Oatly) goes down along with a rider from UAE Team ADQ.

2025-07-27T11:02:45.910Z

Molenaar was caught by a new counter attack including Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike) but that is swiftly closed down.

2025-07-27T10:59:04.026Z

Two teams who have lost their main leaders involved in the break today. Movistar do still have Liane Lippert but she crashed hard yesterday so may struggle to perform.

🇩🇪 Franziska Koch and 🇫🇷 @audebiannic have escaped from the peloton, creating a small gap of 35 seconds.🇩🇪 Franziska Koch et 🇫🇷 @audebiannic se sont échappées du peloton, elles ont créé un léger écart de 35 secondes #TDFF2025 l #WatchTheFemmes l @GoZwift pic.twitter.com/Bb6R84iPhjJuly 27, 2025

2025-07-27T10:57:24.222Z

Koch and Biannic now have 1’18” on the peloton and 1’11” over Molenaar.

2025-07-27T10:56:06.110Z
Crash!

Multiple riders down from St Michel-Preference Home-Auber 93, Cofidis, Roland and Human Powered Health riders down.

2025-07-27T10:55:19.057Z

Laura Molenaar (VolkerWessels) launches clear of the peloton to try and bridge to Koch and Biannnic.

2025-07-27T10:54:01.700Z

Teruel sits up and is waiting for the peloton and is caught. Quickly followed by new moves.

2025-07-27T10:53:10.990Z

Alba Teruel (Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi) is the rider trying to bridge the gap to the two leaders.

2025-07-27T10:51:53.563Z

One rider is trying to bridge to gap to Koch and Biannic with the gap at just over 40″.

2025-07-27T10:49:20.624Z

The gap to Biannic and Koch is growing still to 35″ over the peloton.

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2025-07-27T10:48:54.577Z

In the jerseys today:

Yellow – Marianne Vos (NED) Visma-Lease a Bike)
Green – Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez*
Polka-dots – Elise Chabbey (SUI) FDJ-Suez
White – Julie Bego (FRA) Cofidis

*Vollering is 3rd in points standings behind Vos and Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal), who wears her Mauritian nation champions jersey.

2025-07-27T10:46:24.981Z
100km to go

Koch and Biannic are extending their gap ever so slightly to 14″ over the peloton.

2025-07-27T10:45:02.831Z

Most combative rider of yesterday, Franziska Koch (Picnic-PostNL), is at it again as she joins Aude Biannic (Movistar) on the latest attack.

2025-07-27T10:43:49.980Z

A new attack goes with two riders getting a gap.

2025-07-27T10:43:14.890Z

Jastrab caught by the peloton as riders are already struggling at the back and losing touch.

2025-07-27T10:40:24.586Z

The counter move is caught with about 5″ up to Jastrab.

2025-07-27T10:39:45.326Z

Three riders are trying to bridge to Jastrab but no-one has a good gap on the bunch.

2025-07-27T10:38:40.110Z

The team of yellow jersey Marianne Vos, Visma-Lease a Bike, are leading the peloton with Megan Jastrab (Picnic-PostNL) solo out front with a small gap.

2025-07-27T10:36:56.273Z

New attackers at the front of the peloton as the early break tries to form.

2025-07-27T10:36:09.525Z

The weather is cloudy and sitting round 20°c with a possibility of rain.

2025-07-27T10:34:08.384Z

Immediately attacks come with Cofidis being the first to launch but it doesn’t last long and the bunch is together again.

2025-07-27T10:33:34.742Z
110.4km to go

The official start is given and racing begins on stage two of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.

2025-07-27T10:25:06.749Z

Multiple riders calling for the team car with issues including Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) and Marie Le Net (FDJ-Suez).

2025-07-27T10:15:35.444Z

Roughly 15 minutes to the official start.

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Early mechanical for Letizia Borghesi (EF Education-Oatly) but it is a long neutral today of over 11km, so the start shouldn’t be a standing start like yesterday.

2025-07-27T10:13:27.433Z

With Marlen Reusser (Movistar) abandoning the race yesterday and Charlotte Kool (Picnic-PostNL) DNSing today, that leaves 152 riders on the start line today.

2025-07-27T10:10:18.071Z
Neutral start

The riders have started the neutralised zone in Brest.

2025-07-27T10:07:41.724Z

The first action point of today’s stage come after just over 45km of racing with the intermediate sprint in Châteaulin.

2025-07-27T10:04:34.621Z

It is a special day for Kerbaol today as she starts in her hometown of Brest…

“J’espère qu’on va faire de super belles choses aujourd’hui et que vous serez fières de vos Bretons” – 🇫🇷 @CedrineKerbaolCédrine at home having fun with the crowd this morning#TDFF2025 l #WatchTheFemmes l @GoZwift pic.twitter.com/RcItaLFZk8July 27, 2025

2025-07-27T10:03:46.304Z

One non-starter today is the sprinting star and winner of two stages at this race last year, Charlotte Kool (Picnic-PostNL), leaves the race after not recovering from her crash in the recent Baloise Ladies Tour.

Unfortunately @charlotte_kool has not responded well to the intensity of yesterday after her crash in Belgium and won’t start today’s #TDFF2025 stage 😔Beterschap, Charlotte! 🧡🇬🇧🔗https://t.co/882jZyZjHb🇳🇱🔗https://t.co/gMJGwyjXXo pic.twitter.com/ILHW2gcTrZJuly 27, 2025

2025-07-27T10:00:20.954Z

The neutral start is in around 10 minutes.

2025-07-27T09:59:49.936Z

Yesterday’s stage gave some surprises. Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) being over a minute down in GC after bonus seconds was not on most people’s bingo cards.

The Italian champion and double Giro d’Italia Women winner was right towards the front at the start of the final climb yesterday but disappeared, finishing in 39th place 52″ down. Equaling 1’02” after bonuses.

2025-07-27T09:53:15.934Z

To have a deeper dive into today’s stage, have a look at our stage two preview…

>>> Tour de France Femmes 2025 Stage 2 preview – Can Marianne Vos defend yellow on another hilly finale?

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2025-07-27T09:48:30.979Z

Today’s stage starts in the home town of Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Educaton-Oatly), Brest, and finishes in Quimper after 110.4km.

There are three category four climbs and one cat three climb as well as the usual intermediate sprint. However, today there is the first of the bonus sprints which comes with just over 20km to go, shortly after the first passage of the finish line in Quimper.

2025-07-23T20:42:25.843Z

Bonjour and welcome to our live updates of the Tour de France Femmes stage two from Brest to Quimper.