{"id":298660,"date":"2025-07-28T14:16:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298660\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T14:16:19","slug":"tour-de-france-femmes-stage-3-live-first-chance-for-the-sprinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298660\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Femmes stage 3 LIVE &#8211; First chance for the sprinters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Refresh <\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T14:07:11.109Z<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, Marianne Vos is said to be out of the back with her teammate, Eva van Agt. No information as to what has happened but they are about 30&#8243; behind the peloton but are working their way through the cars.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:53:23.250Z<br \/>\n80km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The break now have 3&#8217;23&#8221; gap on the pack with 40km to go until the intermediate sprint.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:41:31.069Z<\/p>\n<p>The whole of SD Worx-Protime are setting the pace in the bunch with 3&#8217;36&#8221; up to the four rider break.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:33:46.215Z<\/p>\n<p>It has been an excellent effort by this leading quad of riders but their gap is slowly decreasing to the peloton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:74.24%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5MuJ9JoYS3mVsJESAm8rAG.jpg\" alt=\"Breakaway on stage three of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5MuJ9JoYS3mVsJESAm8rAG.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/5MuJ9JoYS3mVsJESAm8rAG.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:26:08.493Z<\/p>\n<p>Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) is the rider setting the tempo in the peloton. The gap is still hovering just below 4 minutes between the pack and the break.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:22:00.713Z<br \/>\n100km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The gap up to the four leaders dips under 4 minutes. Just over 60km to the intermediate sprint.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:18:11.267Z<\/p>\n<p>The race is changing as the race into the second third of the stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc1108KM \ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2642\ufe0f4\u20e3 July 28, 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:16:54.104Z<\/p>\n<p>SD Worx-Protime are setting the higher tempo on the front of the peloton for Lorena Wiebes.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:13:59.885Z<\/p>\n<p>The peloton are finally starting to work their way into the breakaway advantage. The maximum gap was 4&#8217;45&#8221; but now it has dropped down to 4&#8217;08&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:09:06.248Z<\/p>\n<p>Morgane Coston (Roland) and Valentina Cavallar (Arkea-B&amp;B Hotels) were others to hit the deck but are back riding.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:08:15.422Z<br \/>\nCrash!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Riders from Visma-Lease a Bike, Arkea-B&amp;B Hotels, Roland among others. Marion Bunel (Visma-Lease a Bike) and Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) went down but both back riding again.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:06:38.178Z<br \/>\n110km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Jackson, Latimer, Soto and Martin are clearly working very well together as the gap is now 4&#8217;11&#8221; over the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T13:00:42.661Z<\/p>\n<p>The gap continues to grow as the break now have 3&#8217;44&#8221; on the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:53:15.201Z<br \/>\n120km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Avoine and Brau\u00dfe get caught by the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:51:57.279Z<\/p>\n<p>As the peloton&#8217;s gap to the leaders goes over 3 minutes, riders are busy calling for the team cars as feeding is open for the day. The chasers are just about to be caught by the bunch.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:45:35.062Z<\/p>\n<p>Brau\u00dfe and Avoine seem to have given up as they are now 2&#8217;30&#8221; from the leaders and just 20&#8243; from the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:44:52.609Z<br \/>\nQoM (C\u00f4te de la Richardi\u00e8re)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">1. Alison Jackson (CAN) EF Education-Oatly 2pts<br \/>2. Sara Martin (ESP) Movistar 1pt<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc1 129 km\u26f0 C\u00f4te de la Richardi\u00e8re (cat. 4) \u26f01\ufe0f\u20e3 \ud83c\udde8\ud83c\udde6 Alison Jackson, 2 pts2\ufe0f\u20e3 \ud83c\uddea\ud83c\uddf8 Sara Martin, 1 pt\u26aa\ufe0f\ud83d\udd34 Les deux coureuses font leur entr\u00e9e dans le classement.#TDFF2024 #WatchTheFemmes@GoZwift<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1949815445432778872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:41:34.632Z<\/p>\n<p>Onto the 1.4km long cat 4 climb of the C\u00f4te de la Richardi\u00e8re go the break as they now have almost 3 minutes on the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:40:51.804Z<\/p>\n<p>The chasers are losing yet more ground as their gap drifts out to over 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:40:08.849Z<\/p>\n<p>Brau\u00dfe and Avoine have joined forces and are working together to close the 1&#8217;40&#8221; gap to the four leaders. The peloton are now 2&#8217;35&#8221; from the front and 55&#8243; from the chasers.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:35:38.376Z<\/p>\n<p>The gaps grow as the leading four riders have 1&#8217;20&#8221; over the first chaser Franziska Brau\u00dfe (Ceratizit) then 1&#8217;30&#8221; over Alison Avoine (St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93) and 2&#8217;05&#8221; back to the peloton.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc1 136 km &#8211; #TDFF2025 4\ufe0f\u20e3 leaders |1&#8217;05&#8221; \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea Franziska Brausse |1&#8217;20&#8221; \ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf7 Alison Avoine |1&#8217;45&#8221; \ud83d\ude97\ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\ud83d\udeb4\u200d\u2640\ufe0f#WatchTheFemmes pic.twitter.com\/Lh2gI45HFJ<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1949810214011555891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:28:15.100Z<br \/>\n140km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Just 10km until the top of the only QoM sprint of the day on the C\u00f4te de la Richardi\u00e8re with just 2 and 1 point(s) available.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:27:06.479Z<\/p>\n<p>There are a couple of chasers trying to bridge to the leading four riders. Aude Biannic (Movistar) is the closest at 55&#8243; with another just in front of the peloton who are just over a minute back from the front of the race.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:21:14.356Z<\/p>\n<p>The counter move has been caught with the four leaders still lading the race by 30&#8243; over the chasing bunch with 144km to go.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:20:19.749Z<\/p>\n<p>The chase of Vanpachtenbeke seems to be fading as she is now at 24&#8243;, just off the front of the peloton which are at 30&#8243; from the leaders.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:18:50.944Z<\/p>\n<p>Vanpachtenbeke is 14&#8243; behind the leaders with the peloton now at 30&#8243; with the break looking like it has finally formed.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:18:00.133Z<\/p>\n<p>Margot Vanpachtenbeke (VolkerWessels) is trying to bridge across to the four leaders.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:16:59.391Z<\/p>\n<p>Confirmed riders with 17&#8243; on the peloton:<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Alison Jackson (EF Education-Oatly)<br \/>Clemence Latimer (Arkea-B&amp;B Hotels)<br \/>Sara Martin (Movistar)<br \/>Catalina Soto (Labora Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Martin is the Spanish champion, Soto is the Chilean champion and Jackson is the Canadian champion. Only Latimer is not the national champion of her nation.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:14:05.432Z<\/p>\n<p>Four riders now go on the attack.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:11:27.955Z<br \/>\n150km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Break caught yet again. The peloton are now having a bit of a lull before the new attacks inevitably come.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:09:43.304Z<\/p>\n<p>Brau\u00dfe are joined by Marthe Truyen (Fenix-Deceuninck) and Anneke Dijkstra (VolkerWessels) with a gap of 19&#8243; on the peloton.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:08:37.152Z<br \/>\nAttack!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Franziska Brau\u00dfe (Ceratizit)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The German rider launches with multiple riders attempting to join her.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:06:09.456Z<\/p>\n<p>The group grew with 12 riders but has now been caught by the peloton once again.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:04:40.244Z<\/p>\n<p>Nine riders have a small gap on the peloton as the break continues to try and form. Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) is involved in the move.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:02:04.994Z<\/p>\n<p>The weather today is cloudy with the temperature at 22.4\u00b0c with very light, almost non-existent, wind.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T12:00:43.848Z<\/p>\n<p>Now that Elisa Longo-Borghini has left the race there are 146 riders starting the third stage.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:59:53.791Z<\/p>\n<p>Kraak dragged back and the fight starts over again to form the break.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:59:27.775Z<br \/>\nAttack!<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Amber Kraak (FDJ-Suez)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The breakaway specialist and powerhouse rider goes on an early solo move.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:57:15.704Z<br \/>\n163.5km to go<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The official start has been given and racing begins with multiple attacks coming from the flag drop.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:51:07.146Z<br \/>\nNeutral Start<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The riders have rolled out of the start and are now riding the neutralised zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:66.68%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7cyqhtC7FGMivaomfHFWgL.jpg\" alt=\"Riders before the start of stage three of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7cyqhtC7FGMivaomfHFWgL.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/7cyqhtC7FGMivaomfHFWgL.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:43:50.850Z<\/p>\n<p>Le Court starts today decked out head to toe in yellow as the Mauritian rider gets her and Africa&#8217;s big moment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9b &#8220;And it was all yellow&#8221;. \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfa @KimLeCourt head to toe in @MaillotjauneLCL \ud83d\ude0d\ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9b \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfa @KimLeCourt Toute de jaune v\u00eatue #TDFF2025 | #WatchTheFemmes | @gozwift pic.twitter.com\/g4QtqDkBWa<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/1949795712335585411\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 28, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:38:18.808Z<\/p>\n<p>The GC is finely balanced going into today. If Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) takes any bonus seconds today then she will reclaim yellow from Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) as they sit on the exact same time in GC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime), the most likely candidate to win today and take the 10&#8243; bonus, could jump up to joint 4th in GC with those bonuses and give herself the chance of taking yellow tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:30:16.069Z<\/p>\n<p>The riders are all signing on before the start of the third stage in La Gacilly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:69.13%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zefr2VaEECRr9JgKCfoq89.jpg\" alt=\"Sign on for stage three of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zefr2VaEECRr9JgKCfoq89.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/zefr2VaEECRr9JgKCfoq89.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:27:08.710Z<\/p>\n<p>The riders will start the neutralised zone in about 20 minutes time.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:16:51.944Z<\/p>\n<p>The major news coming out this morning is that Italian champion and winner of the Giro d&#8217;Italia Women, Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ), has left the race due to gastrointestinal issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">&gt;&gt;&gt; <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/elisa-longo-borghini-abandons-tour-de-france-femmes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/news\/elisa-longo-borghini-abandons-tour-de-france-femmes\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Elisa Longo Borghini abandons Tour de France Femmes <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:66.70%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9eWuTPLLPvw8d9ocYDKRHS.jpg\" alt=\"BREST, FRANCE - JULY 27: Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy and UAE Team ADQ prior to the 4th Tour de France Femmes 2025, Stage 2 a 110.4km stage from Brest to Quimper \/ #UCIWWT \/ on July 27, 2025 in Brest, France. (Photo by Szymon Gruchalski\/Getty Images)\"   loading=\"lazy\" data-original-mos=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9eWuTPLLPvw8d9ocYDKRHS.jpg\" data-pin-media=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9eWuTPLLPvw8d9ocYDKRHS.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>(Image credit: Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-28T11:14:42.094Z<\/p>\n<p>Day three starts in La Gacilly and finishes in Angers after 163.5km of racing. The second longest stage of the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">There is just one mountain sprint today, the category 4 C\u00f4te de la Richardi\u00e8re, which comes after 34km of racing. The intermediate sprint comes much later after 123km of racing in Vern-d&#8217;Anjou.<\/p>\n<p>2025-07-23T20:47:25.884Z<\/p>\n<p>Bonjour and welcome to our live page for stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Refresh 2025-07-28T14:07:11.109Z Interestingly, Marianne Vos is said to be out of the back with her teammate, Eva van&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-298660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114931288357216763","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298660","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=298660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}