Demi Vollering<\/a>\u00a0(FDJ United-Suez) climbing to second overall at 14 seconds after finishing third on the stage.<\/p>\n\u201cI am very happy,\u201d Reusser said. \u201cI gave everything I had to win today. I was thinking about this stage since the beginning of the season. This is the first Tour de France that I have really targeted and that I am here as a leader. This was our \u2018Project Dijon\u2019 to have yellow today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Double Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner posted an impressive ride with sixth at 53 seconds back; her EF Education-Oatly teammate C\u00e9drine Kerbaol climbed into third overall.<\/p>\n
Overnight leader Sigrid Ytterhus Haugset (Uno-X Mobility) suffered after her record-distance solo breakaway Monday and saw her two-minute-plus lead evaporate. Haugset\u2019s fairy-tale run ended as the Norwegian finished 65th and tumbled from yellow to fourth overall.<\/p>\n
Time trial sets first major GC differences
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Pauline Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot suffered in her first major time trial since her road comeback. (Photo: NICOLAS TUCAT \/ AFP)<\/p>\n
The yellow jersey contenders were either trying to press their advantage or limit their losses on a specialist course that featured one moderate climb in the heart of Burgundy wine country.<\/p>\n
Vollering delivered the strongest ride among the top favorites, conceding just 18 seconds to Reusser to cement her position in second overall.<\/p>\n
The stage caused the first important separation between the favorites, with Reusser and Vollering emerging at the top, with the gaps stretching to the one-minute mark on the major challengers behind them.<\/p>\n
Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot \u2014 who won last year\u2019s Tour on a route without an individual time trial \u2014 slipped to 14th after giving up 2:13 to Reusser and now faces an uphill battle to claw her way back into yellow jersey contention.<\/p>\n
Other climbers also lost time, although many of the marquee names finished in a tight cluster.<\/p>\n
The 2024 winner Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram) stopped the clock at 1:08 slower. Rising Spanish star Paula Blasi and her inside-the-bus duel with UAE l\u2019Imad teammate Elisa Longo-Borghini will only heat up after the pair finished just one second apart.<\/p>\n
Behind Reusser and Vollering, the GC remains wide open. Niewiadoma sits sixth at 1:09, while Anna van der Breggen slipped to eighth at 1:17 as the race heads toward the mountains this weekend.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s next: Another hilly thriller<\/p>\n
The fifth Tour de France Femmes continues Wednesday with the 140km stage 5 from M\u00e2con to Belleville-en-Beaujolais.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a brutal profile with no less than eight rated climbs, including the Cat. 2 Mont Brouilly (2.9km \u00e0 7.6%) with just over 100km to go.<\/p>\n
That should be too much for the pure sprinters and set up a brawl between the GC favorites and stage-hunters.<\/p>\n
Tour de France Femmes Stage 4 results<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World time trial champion Reusser powers to yellow and Vollering consolidates her GC position, but defending champion Ferrand-Pr\u00e9vot…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":980818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[10],"tags":[137190,62,393569,393570,393571,393572,393573,97600,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-980817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-anna-van-der-breggen","tag-tag-demi-vollering","tag-tag-kristen-faulkner","tag-tag-marlen-reusser","tag-tag-paula-blasi","tag-type-article","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117039227046772440","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/980818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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