Epic Racing Up The Col Du Tourmalet! | Tour De France Femmes Avec Zwift 2023 Highlights - Stage 7

Stage 7 highlights from the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift 2023. The queen stage of this year's race. At 90km, it's short, but contains two legendary climbs. The Col d'Aspin (12km at 6.5%) comes first before the big one - the Col du Tourmalet (17km at 7.3%) - a summit finish to decide the stage and possibly the race.
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[@Xbit666]

Kasia Niewiadoma!! Excellent riding!

[@An.......]

Lotte Kopecky has been amazing this tour de france! wow!

[@moviemakerjo6756]

👍🏼

[@rubenv5722]

If wout van aert and lotte kopecky had a baby, then it would become a monster

[@henkoosterink8744]

If you would have a baby also.....

[@everydaygrind766]

It depends

[@MusikPiratCH]

What a stage and what a win! Congrats! What a final effort by Marlen Reusser - I really hope she has enough left for the TT tomorrow!

[@elianemuggler6939]

Hopp Marlen 🇨🇭

[@lloydhlavac6807]

It's great to see the women's course go up the same iconic climbs that the men have known for so many decades. I'm old enough to remember a time when such a thing was considered too tough for women.

[@moviemakerjo6756]

it's just fabulous to see humans challenge the environment on its own terms👏🏼

[@kypdur4746]

You can't be that old then, the 1980s version of the women's tour went over the major climbs and lasted a damn sight longer.

[@lloydhlavac6807]

@@kypdur4746 That didn't start till 1984. And yes, I am older than that.

[@Bendwow]

They only have one climbing stage and do 28% of the miles the men do. Think it's safe to say the real tour is stilll too tough for women.

[@TheMrBennito]

Impressive climbing by Demi, strong and beautiful style. Reminds of Gert-Jan Theunisse in the 80s

[@moviemakerjo6756]

Smooth style 😏

[@kypdur4746]

Drugs then. Theunisse was a convicted cheat. As was Rooks and the rest of the PDM team.

[@dilligaf2818]

luv your work

[@philipp-rt8mt]

Weird tactical games by Vollering and van Vleuten. By refusing to work together, they gifted Niewiadoma around a minute twice as if she wasn't in the race. I would have liked to see Kasia taking the stage win!

[@fernandoroman6494]

It was understandable: From Vollering's perspective: 2 teammates in the chase, one of them with the yellow jersey. She is more punchy than AVV and AVV prefers the super long attacks. So from her point it was better to sit and wait for the chase to get back and help her most of the way up the final climb. From AVV's perpective: If she works on the valley road and brings Demi on her wheel, she'll start the final climb on a disadvantage. I also would have love to see Kasia taking the stage but Demi put over 2 minutes into her in the last 5km

[@fernandoroman6494]

@chrisbloodknot9985 ok

[@alopry11]

​@chrisbloodknot9985show me where a women hurt you ..imagine coming onto a comment section to spout your hate towards them ...such a child

[@R6ex]

@chrisbloodknot9985 Chao is fun to watch! TDFF is every bit as entertaining as TDF.

[@henkoosterink8744]

@chrisbloodknot9985 Go away.

[@JaemanEdwards]

Loving the music and graphics GCN Racing. Top quality production.

[@veraciteabsolue1221]

Produced by France Télévision. They are experienced with men's tour, Paris-Roubaix,..

[@JaemanEdwards]

Fascinating to see this mountain stage top ten. This is like the world championships for climbers. When it was all on the line it came down to this. Monster performance by Demi the undisputed queen. Amazing and brave ride from the legend Kasia. Hearty as always efforts by the goat Annemiek and Ashley Moolman and the consistency of Labous is impressive. Elite. Outstanding climb by Kopecky would signal to me that she quite likely will be switching teams in the near future. She has proved that she is a GC rider in her own right. Santesteban will be over the moon and FDJ pair Uttrup Ludwig and Cavalli should be happy with their climbs And Ricarda Bauernfeind is the young star of the tour. A contender in the future for sure. Interesting to note who wasn't there. Where were the Lidl Trek girls ? I expected Lizzy Deignan followed by Gaia Realini, to launch Elisa Longo Borghini. And I thought Silvia Persico, Mavi Garcia and Lianne Lippert would be there too.

[@franzroth2830]

ELB dropped out of the race before todays stage

[@JonathanvG-wj1ro]

Again?

[@bikeyclown4669]

Congratulations, Vollering!

[@cb6866]

Thank you

[@JaemanEdwards]

Devastating performance by Demi Vollering. The new and undisputed queen. What a season she has had. Dominant is an understatement. Destroying. This season has put her on GOAT mountain. Will she add world champion to her palmares ? What a way to put the DS drama to bed. Anna Van der breggen is all they need anyway. She's a tactical master. Especially when it comes to mountain climbing. She knows what's required to beat the GOAT. It would seem a formality that Demi take this Tour de France. She's a great time trialist. But Annemiek is a two time world time trial champion and current olympic champion. Could she possibly pull that sizeable lead back ? History has shown. Never ever write Annemiek Van Vleuten off. She has the heart of a champion. And as she has done throughout her illustrious career. She will come out fighting.

[@andrasszabo1570]

Yeah, no, Annemiek is a great time trialist, but Vollering is not much worse. She's not pulling that much advantage back in that little time.

[@kypdur4746]

Dutch drugs really do work.

[@JaemanEdwards]

​@@kypdur4746 Remember when the Dutch were known for their weed cafes ? They were ahead of their time.

[@johnengland8619]

Thank you for the effort and time you spent to keep us informed

[@becyk_du_quebec]

What a stage!

[@Duc2B]

Bien joué ! Demain sera intéressant

[@ions82]

Only 11 seconds between 3rd and 5th in the GC as they go into the TT!

[@thatomofolo452]

🚴‍♀🚴‍♂🚴

[@lgarcia67]

I know this is a new competition and they are still “testing the waters”; but why isn’t it finishing in Paris? If they want visibility, why not finish where more people would see it?

[@PLMotion]

They are starting in Paris before men finish day, i think it is just for getting more attention from audiences, finishing in Paris is not garantie that will get a huge crowd like the finish day of TDF men

[@danielbronks4234]

Not sure the Parisians would like Paris shut for another day either

[@otteottema6839]

Van Vleuten is losing energy on the Aspin. She will regret that on the Tourmalet.

[@simonknowles4267]

Just wondering do Ineos have a women’s team

[@henkoosterink8744]

No.

[@simonknowles4267]

@@henkoosterink8744 cheers didn’t think so

[@stan4now]

They're all racing as hard as the men. It's great to see the winners crossing the finish line. But I'm pulling for Annemiek Van Vleuten. Thank You GCN for the great film footage. But you'd take us there if you give us longer sequences. It feels frustrating and a bit frazzling switching scenes so quickly.

[@HugoHocknell]

Never seen such weird tactics before. This race.... avec Zwift doesn't stop giving weirdness!

[@robertmuiruri550]

Sd works tactics has been outstanding

[@jonathanzappala]

Why was the queen stage only 3 hours long? How about a race with some length to it?

[@markdowse3572]

Because of the ICONIC STAGE FINISH?

[@jonathanzappala]

@@markdowse3572 what does the finish have to do with how many km’s are on the route before it?

[@markdowse3572]

@@jonathanzappala Maybe you have never raced or read any books. It's called TACTICS.

[@jonathanzappala]

@@markdowse3572 what are you on about? Women’s racing is too short, The queen stage of the men’s tour was 2 hours longer. That was my comment, you apparently think I said something else. Yes I know all about tactics, my comment has nothing do do about the tactics played in this stage, other than they would have to be different if it was 66% longer. What do you think women are too fragile to race as long as the men do? You make the men’s tour that short, Jonas isn’t winning.

[@luckyluke4435]

Niewiadoma miss peleton😂

[@andreytsoy44]

Make tour de france femme 21 days 👊👊

[@dclark142002]

Movistar being Movistar I see... 😂

[@hugopurpeq]

wait are there only 8 stages?

[@Tibovl]

Yes, sadly there are. Hopefully women's cycling can continue to grow professionally and we can have a full grand tour.

[@dxnielmxlu]

​@@TibovlThey won't be able to do 21 stages in 3 weeks, men and women are not equal physically. I think a tour de France femmes with about 14 stages will already be asking too much from the girls.

[@PartisanGamerDE]

@@dxnielmxlu factually untrue. Female muscle structure does indeed differ but all points to it being able to better deal with continued fatigue and recover more quickly. They are in fact better equipped for long tours physically.

[@Tibovl]

@@dxnielmxlu Yes, they can. But the women's peleton isn't ready for it right now. For endurance sports there's only a gap of around 12% between men and women. Just have the stages be a little shorter and they'll be able to do it once the sport has fully professionalised.

[@dxnielmxlu]

​@@TibovlThe stage being shorter and I think less climbs.

[@pvzio]

Kasia :((

[@Terrierized]

Braking so another rider can't get on the wheel.. Cringe

[@markdowse3572]

I agree. Pathetic behaviour.

[@mracer8]

Sorry about Vos!

[@TGfoever]

Incredibly poor racing throughout this entire tour 😂 solid riding, however the racecraft has been shit

[@MusikPiratCH]

Wow! What a poor comment! 😇

[@TGfoever]

@@MusikPiratCH it’s the most upvoted by far … so I think people agree with me. Collect your tears, harvest all that salt, and cook yourself a sad, lonely dinner 😘

[@AndrezzSpideyzzz]

Agree, sd works had so many opportunities to go for stages but apparently Kopeky can't pull because the has the yellow jersey, van vleuten went way too early and cooked herself pretty badly.

[@PartisanGamerDE]

@@TGfoever now think about why its at the bottom of the comments section though ... thats right ... just because the downvotes dont show it doesnt mean they are not there. Way more people downvoted your comment than upvoted.

[@TGfoever]

@@PartisanGamerDE My statement stands. The strategy and overall race management on display has been poor. Please, try and defend all the decisions being made using any sort of logic, I’m willing to hear you out.

[@markdowse3572]

I could ALMOST SEE who won! 🤣 M 🦘🏏😎