{"id":299855,"date":"2025-07-29T00:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299855\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T00:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T00:49:13","slug":"vollering-in-nasty-crash-as-wiebes-wins-tour-de-france-femmes-stage-three-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/299855\/","title":{"rendered":"Vollering in nasty crash as Wiebes wins Tour de France Femmes stage three | Tour de France Femmes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Demi Vollering\u2019s hopes of continuing in the Tour de France Femmes are uncertain after she crashed at speed<\/a> on the approach to the finish of stage three in Angers.<\/p>\n

Vollering landed on her back and left side, and hit her head, but was able to remount and finish the stage, which was won by Lorena Wiebes of Team SD Worx-ProTime. \u201cStupid crash,\u201d the 2023 champion told teammates after getting back to her FDJ-Suez bus. \u201cI could already see it coming.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old appeared to sustain most of the impact on her back, although she was also seen checking her helmet for damage. Vollering also crashed in the Femmes last year, again injuring her back, when leading the race overall.<\/p>\n

Despite her injuries, she was able to warm down on her bike and ride to the team\u2019s nearby hotel. Her general manager, Stephen Delcourt, appeared to blame others in the peloton, saying: \u201cIt\u2019s not normal, the attitude of many teams and many riders. They\u2019re disrespectful. We lose the respect in the last years in men\u2019s and women\u2019s cycling.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vollering, he said, was \u201cin pain, in her knee, her glutes and her back\u201d. The Dutch rider has also been critical of the attitude of her peers, particularly after her damaging crash in 2024. After Tadej Pogacar crashed in Toulouse<\/a> during the recent men\u2019s race, she posted: \u201cSo kind of the bunch not to use this crash to take time on Pogacar. Guess men are a bit more kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delcourt said: \u201cWhen you crash at this speed, it\u2019s never easy. She\u2019s completely shocked. We need to wait, because we never know if it\u2019s just the shock of the crash, but she will be examined by the team doctor. She\u2019s really positive, she wants to continue, but we need time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lorena Wiebes is known for her sprinting prowess and stayed clear of Marianne Vos to take stage three in Angers. Photograph: Tim de Waele\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Marianne Vos, who took back the overall race lead 48 hours after winning the first stage to Plumelec<\/a>, said: \u201cIt\u2019s the Tour de France and everybody wants to be in the front. It was pretty chaotic, especially coming into the city on a descent with high speed. It\u2019s not really about respect, but everybody is fighting for every centimetre and unfortunately things can happen. Of course, it\u2019s the riders fighting for position that makes it dangerous, but it\u2019s not about respect.\u201d<\/p>\n

The crash, 3.6km from the finish on a wide left-hand bend, was inside the 5km \u201csafe zone\u201d, negating any time losses on the general classification. Already the racing has taken its toll and while the defending champion, Kasia Niewiadoma, has safely navigated the first three stages, plenty of others, including Vollering, have suffered.<\/p>\n

Marlen Reusser, winner this year of the Tour of Switzerland, abandoned the race on stage one, while Elisa Longo Borghini, the Giro d\u2019Italia winner, quit before the start of stage three. For Kristen Faulkner, the Olympic road race champion, the opening stages have been a baptism of fire. On stage two the American was caught up in a crash and only just made the daily time cut, although she finished safely in the main peloton in Angers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demi Vollering\u2019s hopes of continuing in the Tour de France Femmes are uncertain after she crashed at speed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-299855","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\/114933777470667753","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299855","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=299855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}