Stage 8 highlights from the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2023. A first ever time trial at the women’s Tour de France concludes its second edition. 22km against the clock around the town of Pau, with a small rise at the halfway point and another kick to the line. It’s here that this year’s yellow jersey is crowned!
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40 Comments
Great event coverage GCN!
Some great talent racing! Love it!👍🏼👍🏼
Great Demi. Very disappointing Annemiek van Vleuten.
Enjoyed the coverage. Are there any plans to make the TDFF longer than 8 stages? With the men doing 21 stages, it seems like the women should be doing at least 14.
Did the polka dot jersey cost Katarzyna Niewiadoma?
For me Kopecki more impressive than Vollering
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The men's race concluding with an Individual TT produced the greatest Tour finish ever.
i watched this entire video but still unsure. who won?
The passing of the torch is official. All hail queen Demi.
What an illustrious career Annemiek Van Vleuten has had. Legendary. 103 victories. And all epic. The greatest of all time….
And Kopecky is definitely switching teams.
I wasn't aware people could draft in the TT…
Kopecky should have been docked some time for that, right?
How could the "experts" not go all for Marlen Reusser as the winner of stage 8?
Yes, she did it again: Well done, Marlen Reusser!
Impressive 1-3 by Team SD Worx in the TT! Congrats Demi Vollering for winning the Tour and Lotte Kopecky winning the points classification!
It was a little sad to see Kasia Niewiadoma losing place 2 overall. But winning the climb classification was nice! Congrats also to Cédrine Kerbaol for winning at the young riders!
Reusser has the best TT position I have seen. Male or female. Beautiful to watch….
With the blatant drafting when approaching the rider in front and then the rider drafting after being passed, I'm surprised the passed rider doesn't hang on for very long with the large reduction in aerodynamic drag. Oh, drafting in a TT is okay, drafting for a long time in a TT is not okay. Right…
Congratulations Demi! 🥇 What a fantastic career Annemiek!
Those Specialized helmets are an abomination from Star Wars Hell.
Loved watching these highlights both the women and mens tours. Thanks guys.
Yara Kastelijn won the combativity award.
That was a wonderful race. Hopefully the poor management of Kopecky made it possible to have variety of winners
12 stages would be PERF😗🤠
The producers of the femmes tour are terrible. They just cut away at all the wrong times constantly. Lets not see the riders cross the line. No lets see someone in slow motion for a minute instead. Or yesterday lets not see riders try and get away from the pack. No lets see air shots of the mountain. I'm sorry but hopefully next year it will be better produced.
This TDFF needs to be longer, 8 days is not enough😢
I reckon I’m not with it… first time tuning in to the women’s TDF. 8 stages? Surely the short race must be about $ and interest?
Nieviadome Reusser Kopecky and de vollering anr amazing, all champions
Well France finally has a Tour de France champion ! The first since Hinault in 1985!
Women's tour should go first. More prize $, Phil and Bob.
I was considering that SD Worx might be so dominant that the Tour would be boring; but it was wonderful and exciting. Highlights coverage and commentary was excellent and hopefully will continue to become even better in the future. Thank you.
Great race, and what a shame seeing AVV blowing up towards the end of the race. Hardly surprising when she was smashing the giro whilst everyone else was preping for this race. She will be missed for sure.
PS: Is it just me or is AVV riding in a strange position? Hips rocking, toes pointing, shifting in the saddle constantly… I wonder how much more could she push if the position was dialed in, which is rather scary. Still, she doesn't seem the type who would take expert advice on this…
A van Vleuten last year as a cyclist,but what an impressive career she has.https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annemiek_van_Vleuten
What happened to following the UCI TT helmet demension rules? 😂
Would be interesting to know what's going on with that chain on the TT bike at the start.
Gripping watching folks…
Lotte Kopecky placed second in a grand tour! Let me write this again. Lotte Kopecky. I am talking about Lotte Kopecky. Lotte Kopecky came in second place in a grand tour. Two riders from SD Worx stood on the two highest step. Say what you will. Say what you may. That is an indictment on women cycling. Lotte Kopecky, what the deuce!
Congrats!!! What a display yesterday in the mountains, and a great TT finishing 2nd!! Great overall TdF race.
No explanation of 2nd and 3rd at same time? Get it together, GCN…
Chapeau ladies. But for fuck sake can we get more than 8 stages next year?
29 miles per hour? Damn what a TT.
Until the women's tour is ridden on major roads and not back lanes, it will remain a 3rd class event. In the 3 weeks of the men's tour, I never saw as many team cars and motorcycles having to push through the peloton as there were on the 7 days of this event. This made the race far more dangerous than the men's race.
Yes! I was praying for another Dutch 1-2 punch on the Tour de France as in 2022.
I was hoping Annemiek van Vleuten would be on the podium but Demi Vollering really earned this.
Thank You GCN Racing for covering this!
Unfortunately, it’s the money at the end of the day. I don’t believe that the camera man or woman is doing such a thing on purpose, it’s the quality of the staff and camera operators that are fitted within the budget.
Race Crews Please Take Note:
Stand back a bit to help racers get all the O2 they can.
Your CO2 will delay their recovery and possibly cause a collapse.
Annemiek had some serious JVD. Not Good Please save the celebration for later.
Maybe have a small tank of O2 on hand to help with recovery with a non-rebreather mask.
Thanks!