Tour de France 2025 **spoilers**

You can keep race radios but limit the broadcast to safety messages or only organisers can send messages.

Anyone watching (even if you're just a fan of an excess of syllables) the Tour-de-France-Femmes-avec-Zwift featuring Kasia-Niewiadoma-Phinney from Canyon-Sram-Zonda-Crypto?!

Couple of boring enough stages but there was a class solo victory by 41 year old(!!) Garcia, Lara Gillespie's fantastic 3rd in the sprint and then the last half of yesterday's stage was a great watch.

As with the men's racing, if you're commentary or commentator-sensitive there can be some hard-pill-swallowing. But it's amazing to have 3 Irish girls competing.

Watched TV coverage of the last two stages ands it’s been great racing, much improved standard over the last few editions. A team mate of Lara won today in stunning fashion.

Didn't realise that either, they have been very prominent over the last few stages. So far the stages probably haven't been tough enough as it's basically the bonus seconds which is dividing the top few riders, Kim LeCourt is hoovering up all the bonus seconds! Hopefully tomorrow's stage will shake things up.

I'd like to see Vollering win it this year after going so close last year when her teammates deserted her when she fell, which ultimately cost her the race. She doesn't seem popular, she fall again this year, but, at least her new teammates helped her this year, so hopefully she's Ok

There definitely does seem to be needle between the Dutch women. I thought it was appalling last year that none of her teammates helped her even though she was in yellow, definitely wouldn't see the yellow Jersey stranded like that in the men's race.

They’ve lost out on Olympic gold medals too because they refuse to work for each other

We did get one of the sporting moments of the year last year though with that Alp d’Huez stage

Was just about to say the same thing lol

https://www.stickybottle.com/races-results/mixed-fortunes-for-irelands-gillespie-griffin-on-tour-de-france-video/

Nice stickybottle article here

I understand that, but, how did she lose so much time initially, she would definitely have been able to stay with the GC contenders based on how she and they performed over the last 2 days. She should definitely be able to challenge in the current format, as I said previously an ITT would make a huge difference to the GC race.

Well she has shown now that if she concentrated on GC, she could contend, the minutes lost in the earlier stages are much easier to rectify without losing her climbing ability. With the Tour de Femmes being quite short, gaining time in the mountains stages would go along way to winning overall.

As we have seen so far the mountain stages haven't really had a huge effect on GC, the bonus seconds are having a much bigger impact, which really shouldn't be the case. I hope someone gets a gap over the next two stages on the road rather than bonus points deciding it.

It stands to reason the GC group would close the gap, she was on her own, and had been in the lead group all day, plus yesterday's effort, so the gap obviously would come down. Over the 2 stages, she gained over 2 minutes on the GC group, alot of that was her own work. The GC group would have been protected for most of the last 2 stages until the domestiques were gone. I take your point, but, give a little credit where it's due.