{"id":339849,"date":"2025-08-13T00:59:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339849\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:59:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:59:26","slug":"wheel-talk-newsletter-weight-of-expectations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339849\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheel Talk Newsletter: Weight of expectations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803TDFFAZ2085.JPG\" alt=\"Wheel Talk Newsletter: Weight of expectations\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">It&#8217;s been over a week since the end of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift but there is still so much to say about the historic event.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abby Mickey\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Abby-Mickey-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ASO<\/p>\n<p>Hello, and thank you for reading this week&#8217;s Wheel Talk newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Now we are over a week past the end of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift; hopefully, everyone has had time to take a deep breath. This year&#8217;s edition was incredible for so many reasons. From the crowds and the overall impact of the race on women&#8217;s sports to the stages themselves and the stories told over a week of brutal racing. It really felt like this was an edition that will be talked about for years and years to come, and we said the same thing about the race last year! Dare I say we are in a golden age of women&#8217;s cycling? <\/p>\n<p>First things first<\/p>\n<p>The Tour is one of the most stunning races on the planet, so here are some photos to entice you to maybe see the race in person in 2026: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250727TDFFAZ1-67.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\"  \/>Stage 2 from Brest to Quimper.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250727TDFFAZ1-91.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>Stage 2 from Brest to Quimper.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250730TDFFAZ1086.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\"  \/>Obligatory sunflower shot, stage 5 from Jaunay-Marigny to Futuroscope-Gu\u00e9ret.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250731TDFFAZ1115.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1279\"  \/>Stage 6 from Clermont-Ferrand to Ambert.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250801TDFFAZ2070.jpg\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>Stage 7 from Bourg-en-Bresse to Chamb\u00e9ry.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250802TDFFAZ2096-1.JPG\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>Stage 8 from Chamb\u00e9ry to the Col de la Madeleine.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803TDFFAZ1079.JPG\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"680\" height=\"608\" \/>Stage 9 from Praz-sur-Arly to Ch\u00e2tel.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20250803TDFFAZ2092.JPG\" class=\"kg-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\"  \/>Stage 9 from Praz-sur-Arly to Ch\u00e2tel.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot going on in the rest of this newsletter, so I&#8217;m going to leave the opening section at that. <\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"6899eed8dde2721b95a7c4f7\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/wheel-talk-newsletter\/\" title=\"Wheel Talk Newsletter\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29631 wheel-talk-newsletter\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wheel Talk Newsletter<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/womens-cycling\/\" title=\"women&#039;s cycling\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29644 womens-cycling\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">women&#8217;s cycling<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing It&#8217;s been over a week since the end of the Tour de France Femmes avec&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339849","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\/115018751623624396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339849","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=339849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}