{"id":164145,"date":"2025-06-06T23:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164145\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T23:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T23:07:10","slug":"the-perfect-one-minute-power-kristen-faulkner-snatches-tour-of-britain-women-race-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/164145\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The perfect one-minute power’ \u2013\u00a0Kristen Faulkner snatches Tour of Britain Women race lead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage 2 of the Tour of Britain Women was a good day for the northernmost regions of North America.<\/p>\n

Yukon native Mara Roldan stole away 14km from the line to the stage<\/a>, while Alaskan Kristen Faulkner<\/a> (EF Education-Oatly) became the new race leader and goes into the last two stages in Scotland holding the green jersey.<\/p>\n

Faulkner had been second on stage 1, narrowly beaten in a two-woman sprint by Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal). However, Li\u00e8ge-Bastogne-Li\u00e8ge champion Le Court was held up by a crash on the finishing circuit around Saltburn-by-the-Sea, putting the US and Olympic champion into pole position to move into the green jersey.<\/p>\n

“My team was really good in the first half of the race, just keeping me safe at the front. Once the circuit came, it was just a race of attrition,” Faulkner said after the finish.<\/p>\n

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“We dropped some of the GC leaders, which was great, and it allowed me to finish with the jersey.”<\/p>\n

After the crash by Lorena Wiebes<\/a> (SD Worx-Protime) split the peloton with Le Court caught on the wrong side, Faulkner led the first group up Saltburn Bank with a lap to go and was first at the finish line to take three valuable bonus seconds.<\/p>\n

On the finishing climb, Faulkner led the charge behind escapees Roldan and Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek).<\/p>\n

However, she was overtaken by stronger sprinters on the finishing straight, rolling across the line in ninth place with the chase group behind the two leaders, 18 seconds off Roldan.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a tough circuit, and I think a lot of people were really fighting to stay in the race. I felt really good on the last climb, both times up it,” Faulkner said.<\/p>\n

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“I was towards the front at the top, but then there was the long straight before the finish, and I got caught there. I liked it, it was kind of the perfect one-minute power.”<\/p>\n

Faulkner, who now also holds the red points jersey and blue queen of the mountains jersey, heads into stage 3 in the Scottish Borders with a GC lead of four seconds on Markus. Third-place finisher on the stage, Ally Wollaston (FDJ-Suez), lies in third at 12 seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 2 of the Tour of Britain Women was a good day for the northernmost regions of North…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-164145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114638936136631578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164145","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=164145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}