The Closest Finish in Tour History | Tour De France Femmes 2024 Stage 8 | THEMOVE

Forever, the LeMond Fingnon finish from the 1989 Tour was considered the closest margin in history until today. The showdown today between Demi Vollering and Kasia Niewiadoma is epic and one for the ages.
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[@stevemayfield6818]

Lance chapeau to you for giving this race such good coverage and attention, and for working with these knowledgeable and insightful lovely ladies. Love the Tour and now the TdFF. So great this is becoming a regular event on the cycling calendar.

[@OneBikeForAll]

Amazing! Just splendid how well spoken Lance is in Polish. Especially the genuine effort put into making pronunciation perfect, native speaker alike. Thx & Cheers !!!

[@bikeskimawk670]

WEDU. The Move, THANK YOU. Job well done, Thank you.

[@byouman1]

Great six weeks. Thank you all .

[@kowalski3769]

Outstanding race and coverage! The ladies put on quite a show this year!

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

The women's peloton need WAY BETTER COVERAGE, seeing Taylor Phinny on like 4 different places on the course was amazing, talking about motivational support from your husband. Dude, hubby of the year🤔🌻

[@vincentkrause7097]

Did not new they are married🙂

[@BoltzmannOcto]

I realize the Paris Olympics screwed everything up but they need to keep running the femmes immediately after stage 21.... Like the next day or the very day the tour ends when people are so depressed that the Tour is over oh no no but Le Tour is just beginning

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

@@BoltzmannOcto if you've watch the women's peloton in the last 4 years the level has more than doubled. Sure we had Marinara Vos the AVV and Anna Vandebregan who's said she's coming back from retirement next year, ad in Pauline Ferrand Prevot coming to Visma with the Goat Mariana Vos as a road captain it's just getting better and better. Femme Van Emple, Puck Pietrese, now after her 3rd place TDF femmes Paulina Rjoorakeries, Blanka Vas, Giha Riealini, Shirin Van Anjroi. It's going to be very exciting. I think if they got more coverage and had more stage races and some longer stages. I mean look, the TDF men's was 2300 miles the ladies was 640. These gals are BADASS and deserve longer stages and longer GT's with more stage's. If they race longer races they'll get fitter and it will be even more exciting. Though I don't think anybody could say the 8th stage of the TDF Femmes was not exciting. It was awesome 💪🏼💪🏼🙏🏻👑🏁🏆❣️

[@Phylonyous]

Ditto on the Taylor comment!

[@Kittykat_Gamez]

Y'all did a great job recapping the race. Very entertaining. Sad that Faulkner didn't have more of an impact. Really like when y'all talk about your experiences.

[@kati2426]

This WEDU Team is so well put together - Ali, THE energy & insights from the peloton, Mari, the Johan Bruyneel of women's cycling and Lance giving an outside perspective. Great show, so, so fresh!

[@jeffdavis5841]

This was an incredible TDF Femmes...and the final stage was incredible drama. I know it was disappointing for Demi but think for her sponsors and team a few more smiles while she was on the podium for what she and her team accomplished would have been appreciated. Great job ladies!

[@kimb8348]

Would you tell a man he should have been smiling for 2nd?

[@jeffdavis5841]

@@kimb8348 Yep...I'd tell him you rode awesome, won the hardest stage of the tour with a gutsy performance, won most combative rider for the day and the tour, and you are standing on the podium despite an accident that could have ended the tour for you. So now buck up and lets give the sponsors what they pay us for and smile and be congenial

[@brianharris706]

What a race! Absolutely love the show. Great job yall!!🚴🥵❤️

[@ImGlossy63]

Lance, Mari and Ali thanks for talking about the ladies TdF. It’s awesome to hear your thoughts about the days race. 🎉👏

[@mbadgett61]

, was one hell of a stage. Mari and Ali are fantastic. Very inciteful. Lance, as always, is the boss. Tons of drama when the women go up these epics climbs

[@claudiapizarro3162]

outstandings performance , I enjoyed wath the TDF femmes and yesterday race, wow!!!

[@jordanschwartzberg]

Incredible race and Kudos to all 3 podium finishers! They smashed it! Gave it 100%! Niewiadoma put in an incredible fight to stay in yellow and deserves the overall title!💪🏻 Demi V had an amazing ride and fought for every inch back! Such a brilliant performance by the Top 3 and the rest of the field keeping the pressure on and everyone in check! Congrats on a spectacular finish and one of the most exciting tours ever!!!

[@SuperNoname17]

Demi Vollering didn't won the overall for 4 seconds, due to the fact that her team seemed had other objectives which were more important for them than go all in to help Demi to achieve the victory of the race, on 6th stage when everyone knows that the 2 last stages of the race (7th &8th ) are starting the next day, WTF was Nyam Fisher Black doing on a breakaway burning herself when she was the Lt of Vollering in the mountains ? Come on ,it's almost impossible to win a grand tour alone ( even for one of the best rider of the last 3 years) stage races with this kind of talent and quality put the level very high ,everybody needs help sooner or later, but doesn't make the spectacular victory of Kasia Niewadoma less bigger, Kasia Niewadoma performance was huge she did an amazing week ,congrats to her ! It's not her business if other team didn't do what they have to do to get the win with Demi Vollering, so it makes us understand much better why Vollering is leaving the team at the end of the season ,ps. Probably Vollering will join FDJ Suez next season . Bravo Demi ,and chapeau Kasia . Taylor Phinney Kasia's husband must be also very happy ,congratulations for both of them!!!

[@user-ue5ry7or9e]

Lets give credit where it is due, Kasia never panicked, used the valley to refuel, and did a masterful job of pacing. It's not about Demi losing, but about Kasia winning. Everyone has setbacks, and while I love Anna VDB, there were bad team tactics.

[@nickdoben664]

awesome! thank you for the coverage.

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

I love the Eddie B love❣️🙏🏻👑

[@SuperNoname17]

That last stage of the Tour de France 1989 with a ITT, and due to the fact that Laurent Fignon lost that Tour for 8 seconds to Greg Lemond was such a big trauma to the french that it took 34 years and the fact that due to the Olympics in Paris ,the Tour couldn't finish on the Champs elysees, ASO finally decided to put a ITT on the last stage of the Tour, 34 years later !

[@johngeronimo8172]

Thank you Ladies, and Lance 🙌 Wouldn't it be great if the Femmes Avec Zwift always finished on the alpe d'huez? I think the cycling community would love that.

[@zoomlenz]

Just catching up. Great show. These ladies are The Bomb.

[@AngelGonzalez-hc4zw]

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for another great week!

[@rainercx]

so great to see lance again the hero of my younger days when i was active in triathlon. and i m so grateful for his book tour of life, it still has a special splace in my shelf as my father had to fight against cancer at the time lance published it.

[@heymarjorie1574]

LOVE THIS!!! Please keep it going!!!!

[@MattSwain1]

I do wonder if Paulina R has any regrets today because she let 2nd place overall slip through her fingers by not working. She didn’t have to split the work 50:50 with Demi, but a few turns in the valley and they might well have arrived at the foot of the Alpe with 60 seconds instead of 40. Again, appreciate this is hindsight but when the gap is only 4s (or 10s for the entire podium) I’m sure the riders are asking the same questions we are

[@timothyerrington8877]

Wow. A Shout out for TUC (Tour of the Unknown Coast). I rode that three times (as a century) in the 90's. Was there a headwind at The Wall?? LOL. Thanks for the memory.

[@user-gt1wr1vh3i]

This tour has been exciting from start to finish. Thanks to the folks at The Move for bringing us the analytical information.

[@bozenaszczepaniak4039]

So glad to hear nice recalls about Eddie B., Lance. It was nice that you mention his impact into developing cycling in the US. Bardzo dobrze!

[@saltyshowers9356]

7♠ episodes. 3♦boomsticks for the team. What a finish of a great Tour de France Femmes avec Swift. Thoroughly enjoyed your fantastic coverage. See you next year. Stay healthy.

[@cassidayd]

Incredible finish by Niewiadoma and Vollering. The LeMond-Fignon finish in 1989 is now the second most exciting finish ever in a grand tour.

[@stevenmeyer9674]

I hate to agree with you, but I had the same thought. I actually feel this may have been one of the most exciting , dramatic ending of of any sport I have ever seen.

[@septimusseverus7237]

Demi's team did her very wrong.She was literally abandonned by her team mates during the stage where she crashed. The team mates should have waited for her and pull her back to the front as much as possible so that she had not lost as much of the time she would be lacking in the last stage. With a proper team, she would have won the TDF easily.

[@mikevilesmusic]

Great to see this coverage and the race insight. One note, the commentators are switching between calling riders by their first name, then their last name. For those of us who don't live inside the world of women's elite cycling, it is difficult to track who they are talking about when describing the action.

[@krzysztofsmus]

Yes Lance! "Bardzo dobrze" is very good in polish. Bravo! Greetings from PL.

[@thomaskruck4474]

I am still wondering what Rooijakkers was thinking. She was as strong as Vollering on the Glandon, much stronger than the others GC riders. My question is: why wouldn't she work together with Vollering in the Valley and a part of the final climb? They would have had a gap of 2 min in the middle of the climb, breaking Niewiadoma morally. Ok, Rooijakkers could not drop Vollering. But isn't rank 2 overall worth the try?

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

Hey Mary & Ali what do you think about 10 stages for the women's GT's they're fit enough, just my 2¢

[@stevenmeyer9674]

I think they would want to start on a Sat. and finish on a Sunday. I think 9 stages would be great. Or, they could include that dumb two stage day if they want to make it ten.

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

24:41 The 4 seconds was because the team bailed on Demi, Blanka Vas winning is bullshit, LA if that was the blue train, whoever didn't come back was off the team before the world championship. Tell me I'm wrong. Johan would have been heard screaming in Italy. It was just such a complete abandonment of the team leader🤷‍♂️

[@dawidskok8870]

Kasia Królowa TDF❤

[@leszek44]

... and only ' two words' about winner ... Kasia Niewiadoma ...?!:(

[@amandainslovakia2836]

I guess it's because she wasn't the best just the luckiest 😂

[@AdeM-kc7sc]

@@amandainslovakia2836 luckiest don't win TDF

[@gnicolau6862]

Delgado was third and was stronger than Lemond and Fignon. He lost the Tour for being late at the start of the time trial.

[@cosmostrek2001]

second place was 4 secs behind and third place 🙇🙇‍♂🙇‍♀was 10 secs behind closet ever.🚴🚴‍♂🚴‍♀🚵🚵‍♂🚵‍♀

[@billstempek4364]

Come on folks. We know Demi is leaving and SD Worx said 'screw you' on stage five.

[@marioballesteros8839]

Her biggest mistake is her team. LOL You could say that She could have waited for Alpe, but there was no warranty. There just wasn't. She had two choices and there was risk in both of them. Maybe She picked the wrong one. Who knows. Additionally who went with her and the company that Niewiadoma had mattered at the end. But it was a gamble and Demi took it and came out short. Now, the gamble that SD Worx took the worst I have ever seen in cycling. Just horrible.

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

Demi looked like her back was still hurting on the finish when she was emptying her jerseys.

[@mracer8]

If my personal experience on falling off bike at high speed is any indication, you will have some kind of muscle/tightness-sore issue for days after a big crash! plus there is limit on medication you can take while bike racing! I am surprised she was able to do as well as she did actually on the last 2 days! that take nothing away for Kaza mindset on holding the margin while under extreme pressure in such tough stage!! a true deserve WIN!

[@MarkWeishaar-g4r]

@@mracer8 I look like more than that, I have cartwheeled at 48mph on a nice Mountain pass in Washington on my road bike.amogst others. I hit a patch of oil went sideways and high sided. I know the impact routine this looked like something along her lumbar.🤷‍♂️

[@amsterdamraj1]

Shame Kasia was the leader of the race for 3 days. Yellow jersey and you talk about everyone and everything and two sentences about her. What objectivity. Bravo Kasia for a beautiful fight and race.

[@janwanders3542]

Not a very sportive winner. Giving orders to accelerate when your opponent got hit.

[@amsterdamraj1]

tell it to her teammate why they didn't wait and help her, it's a shame not to defend the yellow jersey. As for the team's individuality, that's why it happened. It's good because it will teach them humility and respect for themselves and their rivals.​@@janwanders3542

[@amsterdamraj1]

@@janwanders3542 unsportsmanlike behavior is that of from the Volering team who left her and didn't help her after she fell, they just thought of themselves as a team, too many individuals who think they are the best and only about themselves

[@cosmostrek2001]

what is that weird round dot that keeps showing up in the video. is that some kind of CIA mind control software.🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂

[@francisdelacruz6439]

Kasia of course deserved the thrilling win. But this was due to the unusual betrayal of the yellow Jersey by her team mates. And the fact that in this stage she waited for a non team mate she helped in the Olympics to pull her share, she didn’t.

[@donwinston]

Nooooo. There would've been no difference whatsoever.

[@francisdelacruz6439]

@@donwinston Unlikely though, retired elite cyclists and managers have a different opinion. You are talking of a few seconds not tens of minutes. Can’t see that happening to Pogacar ever, he has a real team.

[@sriganesh2005]

SD Worx deserved the loss

[@zrna1072]

You 3 are chating about IF. LOL. If doesnt exist . What exist is what happended. IF you didnt make that interview with Oprah...

[@deborahmarr2210]

IMO No boom stick for Niewiadoma. The TDFF is supposed to be the pinnacle of women's cycling, a noble pursuit, not a bun fight for juvenile cyclists. I want a good time trial (Niewiadoma came 51st) and she did not win a high mountain stage. She was outperformed by Vollering throughout the race and on Stage 8 by Vollering and Rooijakkers. IMO she won courtesy of taking advantage of the race leader's accident on Stage 5 and the unsporting behaviour of Vollering's team. Chapeau for the win, but no boomstick.

[@godirectwildlandfire6077]

Y'all gave pretty short shrift to Kasia, who, you know, won the race. She balled out on that Alpe d'Huez climb and won the race, and was joyful at the end. Vollering lost, and had the boo-boo face long after the finish. Nothing is given in this sport. She and everyone else should know.

[@Tyson19882]

Closest finish ever? It’s hardly LeMond and Fignon is it? 8 stages. 949 kilometres. Viewership 90% down on men’s cycling. Can’t even fill Alpe d’Huez to capacity. Most people don’t care about womens cycling and never will. It’s being artificially pushed and it’s failing miserably

[@JamesBond-st4qu]

Good then we won’t be seeing you in the comments again. Sounds like a win.

[@koreystephens]

4sec vs 8sec. It’s twice as close. Just the finish is closer. That’s what they say and it’s just unarguable fact.

[@maddb3457]

You don't matter either, go touch grass or get some fresh air to reset yourself. When a "Caitlin Clark" comes along the sport has to be ready. Unless they hold races that day will never happen. One day we'll have what LA meant for US cycling in women's cycling.

[@albertmaziarz6739]

pathetic exuse for subhuman being

[@Tyson19882]

@@koreystephensThe tour of Denmark had 1 second in it on GC yesterday. This wasn’t even the closest “tour” this week, let alone ever…

[@alexxrodriguezr8254]

Y'all them full doping 🍰🍰💉💉💉💪💪💪💪💪

[@tomasznobilec6853]

DEMI LOST AND THAT IS IT so stop being such a loosers better won !!!

[@amandainslovakia2836]

Unfortunately she won by not being the best. So, yes, she is the winner, but someone else deserved it more

[@AdeM-kc7sc]

@@amandainslovakia2836 The winner IS the best. Stop this nonsense.