{"id":1137791,"date":"2026-08-08T12:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1137791\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:32:14","slug":"pauline-ferrand-prevot-out-of-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1137791\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot out of Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The defending Tour de France Femmes champion, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot, will unfortunately not start Stgae 8. A post from her Visma-Lease a Bike Team <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/visma_lab_women\/status\/2086044888294928607\" rel=\"nofollow\">read<\/a>, \u201cUnfortunately, Pauline was not feeling well this morning. In consultation with the medical staff, it has been decided that she will not start today. We wish Pauline a speedy recovery!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PFP\u2019s Tour de France Femmes<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s been a tough Tour for the French star. She lost over two minutes in the time trial, and then even more the next day on Stage 5. It was then she conceded that she would not be able to defend her crown, but would look for more opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually felt pretty good,\u201d she said <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/pauline-ferrand-prevot-is-the-tour-lost-i-have-to-be-honest-yes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at the time<\/a>. \u201cI was dropped on the penultimate climb. On the steepest sections, I couldn\u2019t push any harder. They were simply stronger. I have to admit I wasn\u2019t good enough to follow them.\u201d<br \/>On Mont Ventoux on Friday she finished 18th, but over ten minutes behind. Before she DNS, she was sitting 14th overall. In 2025, she dominated the Tour de France Femmes. The French rider finished almost four minutes ahead of Demi Vollering. In her return to road racing after a decade of racing MTB, she also took a brilliant win at Paris-Roubaix.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 8 of the Tour de France Femmes<\/p>\n<p>The Tour de France Femmes continues Saturday with the penultimate day of racing. It\u2019s the longest stage of the Tour, a 176.4-km ride from Sisteron to Nice. The stage is tougher than it appears on paper. It might actually be another good day or PFP\u2019s Canadian teammate, Sarah Van Dam. The Victoria native came close a few days ago in a small break, finishing fourth. She even admitted she was a little <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/sarah-van-dam-i-felt-i-could-have-won-after-fourth-on-tour-de-france-femmes-stage-6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">disappointed<\/a> as she thought she could have won.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s finale is a tough circuit race in Nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The defending Tour de France Femmes champion, Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot, will unfortunately not start Stgae 8. A post from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1137792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[307921,2000,299,36,11184,32744],"class_list":["post-1137791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-2026-tour-de-france-femmes","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-pauline-ferrand-prevot","tag-spotlight"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117059908176873068","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137791","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=1137791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1137792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}