{"id":1136949,"date":"2026-08-08T01:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1136949\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:56:29","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-8-preview-the-final-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1136949\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes Stage 8 Preview: The Final Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can anyone stop Lorena Wiebes in a sprint this year?<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/velo-cdn.outsideonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-8-Profile-2026.jpg\" data-loaded=\"true\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1350\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Tour-de-France-Femmes-Stage-8-Profile-2026.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Published August 7, 2026 11:08AM<\/p>\n<p><b>Stage 8, Sisteron to Nice, 171.9km \/ 1,420m+<\/b><\/p>\n<p>After the <a target=\"_self\" class=\"article-content-link text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/road\/road-racing\/tour-de-france-femmes\/tour-de-france-femmes-stage-7-results-reaction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">highs of Mont Ventoux<\/a>, stage 8 of the <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"article-content-link text-brand-primary underline hover:text-brand-primary\/85 break-words overflow-wrap-anywhere underline-offset-[3px]\" data-afl-p=\"0\" href=\"http:\/\/velo.outsideonline.com\/tag\/tour-de-france-femmes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a> avec Zwift stays low.<\/p>\n<p>This stage into Nice is the longest and flattest of the nine-day race, and also the most guaranteed to end in a bunch sprint.<\/p>\n<p>After the mid-stage climb of the Col de Toutes Aures, the peloton points directly downhill nearly all the way to a spectacular finish on the C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur.<\/p>\n<p>Two Cat. 4 climbs arrive in the final 10km, but they\u2019re basically speed bumps. Good luck getting rid of Lorena Wiebes. With the way she has dominated every sprint stage so far, she\u2019s the safe pick to win. The onus is on other teams to devise a strategy to dethrone her.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Start Time<\/strong>: 7:40 a.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<li><strong>Estimated Finish Time<\/strong>: 11:43 a.m. Eastern<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Can anyone stop Lorena Wiebes in a sprint this year? Published August 7, 2026 11:08AM Stage 8, Sisteron&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1136950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,135594,182192,132984],"class_list":["post-1136949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-parent_category-road","tag-tag-tour-de-france-femmes","tag-type-article"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117057408428629666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1136950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}