{"id":299729,"date":"2025-07-28T23:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299729\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:40:11","slug":"lorena-wiebes-finally-gets-her-tour-de-france-femmes-victory-as-demi-vollering-crashes-hard-in-stage-3-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299729\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorena Wiebes finally gets her Tour de France Femmes victory as Demi Vollering crashes hard in stage 3 finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stage 3 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/tour-de-france-femmes\" title=\"Tour de France Femmes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tour de France Femmes<\/a> was a flat day for the sprinters but it may be one to also affect the overall classification dearly. A late crash saw Demi Vollering go down with uncertain injuries. In the front a bunch sprint took place where <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/lorena-wiebes\" title=\"Lorena Wiebes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lorena Wiebes<\/a> beat <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/marianne-vos\" title=\"Marianne Vos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marianne Vos<\/a>, who is back in the yellow jersey.<\/p>\n<p>The 163-kilometer long stage finished in Angers and although it was a long day, it was a flat one and well adapted to the sprinters. However it wouldn&#8217;t be a calm day or a relaxed one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In the breakaway of the day were Sara Martin, Alison Jackson, Cl\u00e9mence Latimier and Catalina Anais Soto. The quartet didn&#8217;t stand many chances of succeeding in the day but forced a hard pace in the peloton to keep the group under control. Soto, the final survivor of the day, was caught already inside the final 6 kilometers but soon after there was a serious crash that can potentially change the race as a whole. After the withdrawal of Elisa Longo Borghini and Marlen Reusser, Demi Vollering was involved in a high-speed crash &#8211; where she hasn&#8217;t lost time due to the 5-kilometer rule, but was visibly hurt by the fall.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nIn the front only a few dozen riders remained in front fighting for the stage win, and although Lorena Wiebes didn&#8217;t have her leadout, she brutalized the competition in the slight uphill sprint. She has won the stage with Marianne Vos the only one managing to follow her wheel, finishing a second place that takes her to the race lead again due to the bonifications. Several bike lengths back, <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/ally-wollaston\" title=\"Ally Wollaston\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ally Wollaston<\/a> was third on the day. <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/team-sd-worx-protime\" title=\"Team SD Worx - Protime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Team SD Worx &#8211; ProTime<\/a> have managed to finally take a win after what had been a disappointing start to the race with Wiebes struggling and Lotte Kopecky falling out of GC contention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes was a flat day for the sprinters but it may&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-299729","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\/114933505942681517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299729","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=299729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}