{"id":306500,"date":"2025-07-31T11:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306500\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:51:11","slug":"my-tour-de-france-femmes-is-going-much-better-than-expected-van-der-breggen-poised-for-yellow-jersey-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306500\/","title":{"rendered":"“My Tour de France Femmes is going much better than expected” \u2013 Van der Breggen poised for yellow jersey assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anna van der Breggen<\/a>\u2019s long-awaited debut at the Tour de
\nFrance Femmes is turning into a quietly impressive comeback. The 35-year-old,
\nriding for Team SD Worx \u2013 Protime, finished third on stage 5 and now sits fifth
\nin the general classification, just 27 seconds behind race leader Kim Le Court.
\nDespite four Giro d\u2019Italia titles and two world championship wins, Van der
\nBreggen never had the chance to race a women\u2019s Tour before retiring in 2021.
\nWith Lotte Kopecky absent from the stage wins so far, all eyes have shifted to
\nVan der Breggen as the team\u2019s key contender.<\/p>\n

Kim Le Court claimed the stage 5 win with a well-timed move
\nin the final stretch. “I know I’m not the fastest in a sprint like this,
\nso I tried to attack first. But I’m happy with it. The feeling is good.”
\nVan der Breggen, meanwhile, was content with her third-place finish. “It’s
\ngreat to finish in this elite group. I know I don’t have the fastest final
\nsprint, so it was important to be first. I was looking for a gap, but
\nunfortunately it didn’t happen. Third was the best I could do.”<\/p>\n

Reflecting on the day\u2019s effort, Van der Breggen added:
\n“This was a super long and tough day. For 160 kilometers, it was really
\nhard, and we were fighting for our position. So it’s understandable that most
\nof us felt a bit out of sorts.”<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

With several mountain stages ahead, Van der Breggen remains
\ncautious. “It’s great that I’m getting through this tough stage well. But
\nit’s not yet a benchmark for the really long and tough climbs. But I’ll take
\nthis into account. Now I’m going to try to recover well and then we’ll
\nsee.”<\/p>\n

Still, her early results have been encouraging. “My
\nTour de France Femmes<\/a> is going much better than expected. That’s a good
\nfeeling. However, this doesn’t say much for the future. The real giant climbs
\nare still to come.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna van der Breggen\u2019s long-awaited debut at the Tour de France Femmes is turning into a quietly impressive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-306500","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\/114947704919253692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306500","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=306500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}