Tour de France Femmes finally gets its first French stage winner as Cédrine Kerbaol turns the tide

Cedrine Kerbaol wins the most combative rider award after winning stage six of the Tour de France Femmes 2024
Cedrine Kerbaol wins the most combative rider award after winning stage six of the Tour de France Femm𒅌es 2024 (Image credit: Getty Images)

Ever since women's racing reclaimed the Tour de France name in 2014, first through La Course by Le TDF and now the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes, it's been the Dutch who have performed best. Be it Vos, Van der Breggen, Van Vleu♋ten or now Vollering, never has the home nation lived up to the strength of the Netherlands.

But fittingly today, following a Dutch Grand Départ, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Cédrine Kerbaol turned the tide with the first French stage win at the revived Tour de France Femmes, emulating the great but controversial Jeannie Longo.🎃 The 65-year-old was the last home winner at the women's race in 1989 before former director Jean-Marie Leblanc decided to scra🍷p the event.

James Moultrie
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James Moultrie is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other spo🌸rts &ndash🐲; rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a few.