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Demi Vollering wins women's Tour de France as teammate takes final stage

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Demi Vollering won the women's Tour de France for the first time Sunday while her teammate Marlen Reusser of Switzerland clinched the final-stage time trial.

Although the 26-year-old Vollering was already in a strong position after a dominant win in Saturday's penultimate stage up to Tourmalet in the Pyrenees, she still had enough energy left to finish 10 seconds behind Reusser in the time trial held in the southwestern city of Pau.

The overall victory completed a challenging Tour for the Dutch rider. In Stage 5, Vollering received a 20-second penalty for riding in the slipstream of her SD Worx team director Danny Stam's car, with Stam later being banned for "dangerous" overtaking and making "inappropriate comments."

Despite the setback, Vollering entered the finale with a sizeable 1-minute, 50-second advantage.

"I think I still, again, cannot believe it," said Vollering, who has endured several narrow misses in recent years, twice finishing runner-up in La Vuelta Femenina and third in the 2021 Giro Donne. "Of course, I worked hard, but it's just not only working hard, it's believing in it. You have a dream and you work really hard for it, but also you need to keep yourself a bit calm and find a good balance in your life."

Team SD Worx completed a stage treble with Lotte Kopecky of Belgium finishing in third place. Kopecky was 38 seconds behind Reusser, who covered the 14 miles in 29:15.

Kopecky's performance moved her up two spots to second place overall in the general classification, 3:03 behind Vollering, with Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland dropping to third overall.

Niewiadoma was also 3:03 behind Vollering, but Kopecky edged her out in the standings because of time splits recorded in the time trial, organizers said.

Annemiek van Vleuten, last year's Tour winner, was fourth this year, finishing 3:59 behind Vollering.

Niewiadoma won the best climber's polka-dot jersey while Kopecky collected the green jersey for best sprinter.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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Vollering wins women’s Tour de France and teammate Reusser clinches final stage

Netherland’s Demi Vollering wearing the overall leader’s yellow jersey celebrates on the podium after winning the Tour de France women’s cycling race, an individual time trial over 22.6 kilometers (14 miles) with start and finish in Pau, southwestern France, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

From left, France’s Cedrine Kerbaol, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Poland, wearing the best climber’s dotted jersey, Winner of the Tour de France women’s cycling race Netherland’s Demi Vollering, Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky wearing the best sprinter’s green jersey pose on the podium of the eighth stage of the Tour de France women’s cycling race, in Pau, southwestern France, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Winner of the Tour de France women’s cycling race Netherland’s Demi Vollering reacts after the eighth stage in Pau, southwestern France, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Marlen Reusser from Switzerland celebrates on the podium after winning the eighth stage of the Tour de France women’s cycling race, an individual time trial over 22.6 kilometers (14 miles) with start and finish in Pau, southwestern France, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

From left, France’s Cedrine Kerbaol, wearing the best young rider’s white jersey, Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Poland, wearing the best climber’s dotted jersey, Winner of the Tour de France women’s cycling race Netherland’s Demi Vollering, Belgium’s Lotte Kopecky wearing the best sprinter’s green jersey celebrate on the podium of the eighth stage of the Tour de France women’s cycling race, in Pau, southwestern France, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

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PAU, France (AP) — Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the women’s Tour de France for the first time on Sunday while her teammate Marlen Reusser of Switzerland clinched the final-stage time trial.

Although the 26-year-old Vollering was already in a strong position after a dominant win in Saturday’s penultimate stage up to Tourmalet in the Pyrenees, she still had enough energy left to finish 10 seconds behind Reusser in the time trial held in the southwestern city of Pau.

Team SD Worx completed a stage treble with Lotte Kopecky of Belgium finishing in third place. Kopecky was 38 seconds behind Reusser, who covered the 22.6 kilometers (14 miles) in 29 minutes, 15 seconds.

Kopecky’s performance also moved her up two spots to second place overall in the general classification, a total of 3 minutes, 3 seconds behind Vollering, with Kasia Niewiadoma of Poland dropping to third overall.

Niewiadoma was also 3:03 behind Vollering but Kopecky edged her out in the standings because of time splits recorded in the time trial, organizers said.

The 40-year-old Dutchwoman Annemiek van Vleuten, last year’s Tour winner , was fourth this year, finishing 3:59 behind Vollering.

Niewiadoma won the best climber’s polka-dot jersey while Kopecky collected the green jersey for best sprinter.

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Dutch cyclist Demi Vollering wins first Women's Tour de France title

Dutch rider Demi Vollering won the Women's Tour de France on Sunday after Marlen Reusser claimed the final stage time trial in Pau.

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SD Worx team leader Vollering, 26, finished the eight-stage race ahead of Belgian teammate Lotte Kopecky and Poland 's Katarzyna Niewiadoma of the Canyon-SRAM team.

It was the 15th victory this year for world number one Vollering who dominated the spring classics, with a hat-trick in the Ardennes  – Fleche Wallonne, Liege and Amstel  – that only compatriot Anna van der Breggen had achieved before her. 

Defending champion Annemiek van Vleuten, 40, who will retire at the end of the season, finished off the podium in fourth.

In the streets of Pau, watched by French prime minister Elisabeth Borne, on roads that had dried after heavy morning showers, Reusser set the fastest time of 29min 15secs over the 22km course at the bottom of the Pyrenean foothills.

The Swiss achieved her seventh success of the season after the Ghent-Wevelgem, the Tour of Switzerland and the Tour of the Basque Country. 

Vollering took second place in this final time trial which changed the order of the podium established on Saturday at the top of the Col du Tourmalet. 

Kopecky, who had worn the leader's yellow jersey for six days from the first stage, moved from fourth to second overall at the expense of Van Vleuten, who finished 12th in Pau.

Niewiadoma matched her 2022 performance and also won the mountain classification.

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Who Won the 2023 Tour de France Femmes?

Demi Vollering takes the General Classification win after an unforgettable week of racing.

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) leads the 2023 Tour de France Femmes by one minute, 50 seconds after Stage 7. Ahead of the final Stage 8—an individual time trial—Vollering will wear the yellow jersey in Pau, looking to claim her first Tour de France Femmes GC title. Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) is in second place, 1:50 behind Vollering, and Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) is in third place, 2:28 behind.

Here’s a look at how every stage of the Tour de France Femmes, so far, has unfolded.

Winner of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes - Demi Vollering

The 2023 Tour de France Femmes culminated today in a 22.6 km individual time trial in Pau. As was also the case in this year’s men’s race, the individual TT was as merciless—with a climb in the middle of the route—as it was decisive. Demi Vollering (SD Worx) started the stage in yellow after her dominating performance during yesterday’s Stage 7 finish atop the infamous Col du Tourmalet. She ended the stage as the winner of this year’s Tour de France Femmes.

General Classification Standings

• Demi Vollering (SD Worx): 25:17:35
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): +3:03
• Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM): +3:03
• Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar): +3:59
• Juliet Labous (Team DSM-Firmenich): +4:48

Points Classification Leader

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 243 points

Queen of the Mountains Leader

• Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM): 27 points

Best Young Rider Classification Leader

• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 25:30:02

Stage 7 Leader - Demi Vollering

Demi Vollering (SD Worx) takes over the lead at the 2023 Tour de France Femmes and will wear the yellow jersey on the final stage on Sunday. Vollering leads by 1:50 over second place Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM) after summiting the Col de Tourmalet first to win Stage 7—a ride that very likely won Vollering the General Classification of the TDFF.

Defending TDFF champion Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar)—and Vollering’s top rival entering the Tour—comes into the final stage in third place, 2:28 behind the lead and 38 seconds behind second place Niewiadoma. Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx), who held the yellow jersey since she took the lead on the Tour’s opening stage, is in fourth place, seven seconds behind Van Vleuten for the third and final spot on the podium, so that could be a good battle to watch on Stage 8.

• Demi Vollering (SD Worx): 24:48:10
• Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM): -1:50
• Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar): -2:28
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): -2:35
• Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step): -2:29
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 228 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 24:58:16 (+2:01)

Stage 6 Leader - Lotte Kopecky

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) remains in the yellow jersey after Stage 6 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Kopecky took third on the stage—another stage win that went to a breakaway rider, Emma Norsgaard—and maintained her lead in the General Classification, and gained an additional four bonus seconds over her top rivals in the GC.

Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step) is in second place in the GC, 53 seconds back. Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) is in third, 55 seconds back. Demi Vollering (SD Worx), who was penalized 20 seconds on Stage 5 for drafting behind her team car, is in seventh place, 1:07 behind the leaders and 12 seconds behind her top GC rivals.

Coming up on Saturday is Stage 7, which finishes atop the Col de Tourmalet, for the queen stage of the Tour. We two massive climbs, this will be judgment day of this year’s TDFF. Expect big time gaps as the top climbers in the world will be the ones to watch.

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 21:54:30
• Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step): -:53
• Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar): -:55
• Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek): -:55
• Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM): -:55
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 201 points
• Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck): 23 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 21:57:41 (+2:45)

Stage 5 Leader - Lotte Kopecky

The biggest story of the day, as far as the General Classification is concerned, was Demi Vollering (SD Worx), who was penalized 20 seconds for drafting on her team’s car while getting back to the peloton. Vollering entered the stage in sole possession of second overall in the GC, 43 seconds behind Kopecky. The penalty drops her to seventh overall, 1:03 behind Kopecky and 12 seconds behind the other main GC contenders.

After Moolman Pasio in second, there are three riders that are 51 seconds behind, including Longo Borghini, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM), and Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar). Bauernfeind, meanwhile, moved into the top 10 after her Stage 5, moving up to eighth overall,1:38 back of the lead.

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 18:55:17
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step): -:49
• Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek): -:51
• Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM): -:51
• Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar): -:51
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 166 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 18:58:24 (+2:45)

Stage 4 Leader - Lotte Kopecky

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) stayed in the yellow leader’s jersey after an eventful Stage 4 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Kopecky leads second place Demi Vollering—her SD Worx teammate—by 43 seconds in the GC. After that, four other women, led by third place Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step) trail the leader by 51 seconds.

Kopecky ultimately surrendered a little bit of time to others in the GC on Stage 4. She went on the attack at one point from a group of attackers and set up some of SD Worx’s tactics in the interest of the team’s true GC leader, Vollering. In the end, it worked as Vollering claimed second on the stage, earning six bonus seconds over the other GC threats. Vollering entered the day even with her top rival and defending TDFF champion Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar), but is now eights ahead of her after Stage 4.

Moolman-Pasio, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM), Elisa Longo Borghini, and van Vleuten are each 51 seconds behind Kopecky in the standings. Cecilie Ludwig (FDJ Suez) and Stage 2 winner Liane Lippert (Movistar) were among the riders that lost some time in the GC on Wednesday, but both remain in the top 10.

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 15:47:25
• Demi Vollering (SD Worx): -:43
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step): -:51
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 128 points
• Anouska Koster (UNO-X Pro Cycling): 19 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 15:50:32 (+2:45)

Stage 3 Leader - Lotte Kopecky

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) kept the yellow jersey after Stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes, on a day that ended up (unsurprisingly) being one for the sprinters. Kopecky supplied a strong leadout for the stage winner, her SD Worx teammate Lorena Wiebes. Kopecky was able to marginally increase her lead once again on Stage 3, earning four bonus seconds for taking third on the day. She now leads the GC by 55 seconds over second place Liane Lippert (Movistar). Asleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step) is in third place, leading seven riders 1:05 behind Kopecky.

Other than the few bonus seconds for Kopecky, there was no real change to the overall GC situation. Annemiek van Vlueten (Movistar) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx), the two favorites are both still in the top 10, both 1:05 off the lead.

Stage 4 could very well bring changes to the GC situation, with a few steep climbs towards the end on the Tour’s longest stage. Expect to see those in the top 10, battling it out over the last 10K or so on Wednesday for crucial time.

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 11:07:19
• Liane Lippert (Movistar): -:55
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step): -1:05
• Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon//SRAM): -1:05
• Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek): -1:05
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 125 points
• Julie Van de Velde (Fenix-Deceuninck): 9 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 11:09:19 (+1:21)

Stage 2 Leader - Lotte Kopecky

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) remains in the yellow jersey after Stage 2 of the 2023 Tour de France Femmes. Kopecky finished second on the stage, but maintained her strong hold on the lead in the General Classification. She gained six bonus seconds for finishing second on the stage, and now leads second place Liane Lippert (Movistar) by 49 seconds (Lippert earned 10 bonus seconds for winning Stage 2). Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step) is in third overall in the GC—one of seven riders that are 59 seconds behind the yellow jersey.

Kopecky increased her overall on Monday with the help of the bonus seconds on the line. Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx) and Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich)—two sprinters—drop off the podium on a stage that saw the GC favorites come to the front. The two GC favorites—Annemiek Van Vleuten (Movistar) and Demi Vollering (SD Worx)—are both inside the top 10, trailing Kopecky by 59 seconds.

Tuesday’s Stage 3 is a flat stage and likely won that won’t change much in the GC, before Wednesday’s Stage 4, which is a hilly stage that has a chance to shake up the positioning of the riders in the GC.

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 7:17:36
• Liane Lippert (Movistar): -:49
• Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step): -:59
• Demi Vollering (SD Worx): -:59
• Cecile Ludwig (FDK-Suez): -:59
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 90 points
• Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck): 7 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 7:19:3o (+1:21)

Stage 1 Leader - Lotte Kopecky

Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx) is in the yellow leader’s jersey after the first stage of the Tour de France Femmes. She holds a 45-second lead on second place Lorena Wiebes, her SD Worx teammate.

Kopecky made a move on a reduced peloton with 10K to go in the stage towards the top of the day’s big climb, the Côte de Durtol. The acceleration could have initially been perceived as a move to grab the QOM points, which she did, but Kopecky, of course, is one of the world’s finest time trialist/classic rider, so she maintained that gap—and then extended it—all the way to the finish.

The main General Classification contenders sit 53 seconds behind Kopecky after the first stage. Defending champion Annemiek Van Vluten (Movistar) was 13th on the stage and Demi Vollering (SD Worx) was sixth on the stage, so the co-favorites are not separated by any time heading into Stage 2.

• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 3:04:09
• Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx): -:45
• Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich): -:47
• Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma): -51
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 50 points
• Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx): 3 points
• Cedrine Kerbaol (Ceratizit–WNT Pro Cycling): 3:05:35 (+:34)

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Dutchwoman comes second in Rodez and gains time on GC rivals

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Demi Vollering attacks. There’s 150m to go, and one body in front of her - a target decked in the yellow and red of Uno-X. She grits her teeth. The road bends left, uphill to the finish in Rodez, and roaring into the air, Vollering goes round the outside. 

As she sits up to celebrate, there’s a realisation. “I crossed the line and I was like, ‘I’m not sure’,” she told Cycling Weekly afterwards. 

The race she thought she had won, stage four of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift , had already been claimed by someone else. One minute and 11 seconds earlier, Yara Kastelijn of Fenix Deceuninck had taken her maiden road victory. Vollering took second. 

“I had no clue what was in front of me,” the SD Worx rider explained. “I caught up Anouska Koster [Uno-X], and she was the only one I could see, so I thought I had everybody. I didn’t know [Kastelijn] was still in front.

“I didn’t know if someone from the group was out [front], you know? So I thought I’d celebrate anyway and then we have at least the pictures. If I didn’t win, then we can always delete them. So let’s delete them,” she smiled. 

Vollering was, however, able to take a small victory in Rodez on Wednesday. She distanced her GC rival Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) to the line, and took six bonus seconds, eventually earning an eight-second advantage over her compatriot. 

“It’s really nice, of course, to already gain a little bit of time,” Vollering said. “It was really, really long, and I think that suits Annemiek better than me. It was hard and painful. I’m happy [with] how it went. I hoped I could do a little bit more in the end on the last climb, but I could not really make a difference anymore after such a long race.” 

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Stage four marked the longest stage ever in women’s WorldTour history, stretching out over 177 rolling kilometres from the start in Cahors. 

“It was a really strange day,” Vollering said. "And also a hard, hard day. You could feel it in the bunch. It’s different for us, because we don’t always have such long races.” 

When she arrived back at her team bus, Vollering cut a disappointed figure. On the race’s longest day, she had tasted the euphoria of victory, before reality dragged her back to earth. Downhearted, she greeted her border collie, hugged her partner, and clambered onto the rollers for her warm-down. 

“I would have liked to win today,” she told the press, “because it’s a Tour stage, and it’s really special to win a Tour stage. I hope that one will still come.” 

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He's also fluent in French and Spanish and holds a master's degree in International Journalism. 

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Demi Vollering: Top things to know about the 2023 Tour de France Femmes winner and UCI World Championship rider

Did you know that Dutch rider Demi Vollering used to work as a florist and takes her dog Flo to almost every race? Find out more about the Tour de France Femmes champion.

Demi Vollering will be the rider to beat at the UCI Cycling World Championships women's road race on Sunday 13 August.

The 26-year-old Dutchwoman claimed a comprehensive win by more than three minutes to her SD Worx teammate Lotte Kopecky at the 2023 Tour de France Femmes .

Having already secured the Ardennes hat-trick earlier this season, Vollering has cemented herself as one of the biggest female stars of the sport.

Here are five things you might not know about Vollering.

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Vollering competed in speed skating

Vollering started speed skating as a child. She practised the sport every winter from October to March and was then using cycling to supplement her training the rest of the year.

The 2023 Tour de France Femmes winner competed in races on the ice every winter up until 2019, when Vollering’s boyfriend convinced her to focus on cycling.

As late as in 2019, the SD Worx rider won a speed skating race in The Hague on the 500m distance, and she believes the sport has helped her build a strong core stability that is also very important in cycling.

The same year, the Dutch rider went on to win the prestigious one-day road cycling race Giro dell'Emilia Donne.

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Dutch rider worked as a florist

In 2017, Vollering finished an official degree in Flower Design. Afterwards she started working as a florist at two flower shops.

She was also helping her father and uncle in the nursery that they are running. Her father had previously said that his daughter made ”very beautiful bouquets and is very creative”.

Her boyfriend persuaded her to quit the jobs in the flower industry to be able to recover probably after hard workouts on the bike.

The Amstel Gold Race winner really enjoyed her job as a florist, but tests made by her coach showed that the dream of becoming a professional cyclist was definitely feasible.

Her dog Flo comes along to races and training

You often see Vollering hugging her dog Flo immediately after finishing an exhausting race.

Flo is a Stabyhoun, which is one of the rarest dog breeds in the world, hailing from the province of Friesland in the Netherlands.

The pooch even joins the Strade Biache winner on training rides, where Flo is in a backpack enjoying the wind blowing in her face.

An avid yoga practitioner

Yoga and mindfulness play an important role for Vollering. She practises the stress-relief technique every day, as it helps her recover, relax her body, and quiet her mind.

Before every stage of the Tour de France Femmes that she won in 2023, the Dutchwoman was doing 10-15 minutes of yoga.

In a video she posted on Instagram shortly after the Grand Tours win, the cyclist explains why she does yoga, saying it gives her "the focus I need to achieve my goals," and "how to find peace in suffering."

Looks up to compatriot van der Poel

Vollering has taken some incredible victories already at the age of 26, and young female cyclists are starting to look up to the Tour de France Femmes winner.

One rider that inspires the Dutchwoman is the newly crowned men's road race world champion.

“I think Mathieu van der Poel is a very special and inspiring athlete. He does everything with so much passion, he really loves cycling on every discipline and he always wants to win. He rides with his heart and that is something I always want to do too,” she told Lasterketa Burua .

On Thursday (10 August), Vollering is riding the individual time trial and on Sunday the road race at the UCI Cycling World Championships.

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Demi Vollering sails through time trial to win Tour de France Femmes

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In the end, Team SD Worx had it all their own way as the European time trial champion, Marlen Reusser, completed a memorable weekend for the Dutch team, adding time trial victory in Pau to Demi Vollering’s emphatic overall victory in the Tour de France Femmes .

The weekend double for SD Worx capped a race in which they been the dominant force throughout even though at times they had been under attack, both from their rivals and from race officials. None of that, however, could prevent Vollering asserting herself in the climbs of the Pyrenees on Saturday afternoon, her star now rising as fast as that of her rival and compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten begins to fade.

The key moment in the race came 5km from the finish of stage seven, as thick mist shrouded the Pyrenees. On the steepest section of the Col du Tourmalet, Vollering accelerated from the remnants of an elite selection and almost before her rivals could react vanished up the climb into the gloom.

“It was so foggy there that I knew if I made it fast they could not see me any more,” she said afterwards. Nor could they catch her and she won the stage by just under two minutes from the Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Canyon SRAM.

The waiting game between Vollering and Van Vleuten, leader of the Movistar team, was finally over. The SD Worx rider exorcised the defeat in the Tour last year and this time it was Van Vleuten, champion a year ago , who was left hunched and sobbing beyond the finish line.

“It’s obvious that Demi Vollering was on another level today,” Van Vleuten said on Saturday evening. In fact, the same could be said of her team, who filled the top three positions in the final time trial on Sunday, Vollering ending second and Lotte Kopecky third.

SD Worx retained their focus throughout the week of racing despite a spat with the race commissaires which led to Vollering being penalised 20 seconds and her sports director, Danny Stam, being kicked off the race for “dangerous behaviour”. The team also held the yellow jersey throughout, following Kopecky’s victory on stage one in Clermont Ferrand, won four stages from eight and could celebrate Kopecky finishing second overall in addition to Vollering’s triumph. SD Worx also won the team classification.

It was an anticlimax for the evergreen Van Vleuten, winner of this year’s Vuelta Femenina and Giro Donne, who lost crucial time in the 22.6km “race of truth” around Pau and her place on the podium, Niewiadoma ending up third.

In some ways, it is no surprise that others have labelled SD Worx “arrogant”. Yet the team remain defiant. “I’d be frustrated too if I wasn’t on the team that’s winning all the time,” SD Worx’s sports director, Anna van der Breggen, said during the race.

Van Vleuten and Vollering will now convert from rivals to teammates, racing for the Netherlands in the World Road Championships in Glasgow. There is unlikely to be any thaw in relations between the pair, however, and their antipathy spilled over on the descent from the Col d’Aspin on Saturday, when they refused to work together.

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“The Dutch team is not really a team,” Van Vleuten said before the Tour started.

Despite the domination of SD Worx there is no doubt the strength in depth of the women’s peloton is growing. In the 2022 Tour, Van Vleuten beat Vollering by almost four minutes with Niewiadoma third overall, more than six and a half minutes in arrears. Of the 144 starters, 109 finished the race. This year, 123 of 154 riders contested the final time trial, while the top five finished within five minutes of each other and 10 riders were within 10 minutes of Vollering. There is no doubt, too, that the race promoter, ASO, is fully committed to the development of the event.

Last year, after a long battle for recognition, the peloton had seemed a little overwhelmed by the chance to finally ride a reinvented women’s Tour de France. Much of the media coverage focused on the breakthrough moment that the race represented, rather than the quality of the racing.

There has been little of that this July with the competition itself, not the polemics around it, deservedly taking all the attention.

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SD Worx ready to 'go to war' at Tour de France Femmes as Demi Vollering hunts yellow jersey

Updated 19/07/2023 at 17:54 GMT

Annemiek van Vleuten, beware. The Dutch superstar may have dominated the inaugural Tour de France Femmes last year, but Demi Vollering is determined to wrestle the yellow jersey off her shoulders in 2023. Vollering is part of SD Worx's super squad, who are also hoping to dominate the sprints through Lorena Wiebes. Vollering and Wiebes sat down with 'The Power of Sport' ahead of the Tour.

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SD Worx leader targets overall victory despite time trial concerns

Demi Vollering will line up at the second edition of the restored Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift in the best form of her life and one of two overwhelming favourites to win the overall title at the eight-day race held from July 23-30.

There has been a near-frenzy over what many believe will be a highly-anticipated Van Vleuten versus Vollering battle for the yellow jersey. However, Vollering is adamant that such a narrow perspective leaves out other potential winners in the peloton.

"It's not only between me and Annemiek. I think this course is good for a lot of riders; Classics riders, for example, Elisa Longo Borghini or Silvia Persico, will all be very good on this course," Vollering said in an interview before the start in Clermont-Ferrand. 

"I think there will be a battle between multiple riders. It's a hard course every day, and it's not only Annemiek and me, and I hope a lot more riders."

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There is a short list of contenders who will also be in the race for yellow along with Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek) and Silvia Persico (UAE Team ADQ); there is last year's podium finisher Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), Juliet Labous (Team dsm-firmenich), Marta Cavalli and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-SUEZ), Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-QuickStep), Mavi Garcia (Liv Racing TeqFind) and Veronica Ewers (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB). 

However, none have shown the same level of form that Vollering and Van Vleuten have demonstrated in their remarkable performances this season; Vollering during Classics and early-season stage races and Van Vleuten dominating the Giro Donne, making them the overwhelming favourites.

Closing the gap to Van Vleuten

At last year's Tour de France Femmes, Vollering was the closest rival to Van Vleuten on the ascents of Le Markstein and La Super Planche des Belles Filles. But on both climbs, she crossed the line and appeared bewildered by Van Vleuten's strength; after all, she had trained harder than she ever had before in preparation for the race and surpassed all her previous power numbers. It wasn't enough to contest Van Vleuten's rampage through the mountains.

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Van Vleuten explained that by being older, she has been racing longer and progressively more each year and has more experience. She also suggested that, given more time for her body to adapt to higher training loads, Vollering would close the gap to Van Vleuten in the future.

Vollering has enjoyed an outstanding season and has appeared to have already shown a marked improvement this season. In the earlier season races, she won at Strade Bianche, the three Ardennes Classics, second overall at La Vuelta Femenina, Itzulia Women and the Tour de Suisse, plus won Vuelta a Burgos and the Dutch Championships.

She has taken a new approach to the Tour de France Femmes this year and opted to skip the Giro Donne. Instead, she spent time training in France. She previewed several key stages, including the Tourmalet three times. She trained at altitude in Andorra and enjoyed a week at home in Switzerland to recover. 

She said she feels fresh and ready to begin a tough week of racing where she and her team aim for stage wins and the overall title.  

"It's not a lie that I made a big step this season. I feel more confident in the races and, technically, those kinds of things. I also recognize this growth myself. Still, it's a stage a race of eight days, and you need to have a big engine for this, and Annemiek has more experience and training experience than me," Vollering suggested.

"This whole season has gone well, and I have confidence that this stage race will also be good, and I will be in form. I still feel good after this big season that I already had, and mentally that I'm still fresh and still fighting to win. We will find out at the end of the Tour de France."

Vollering's teammates Lotte Kopecky and Lorena Wiebes have also noticed a change in Vollering compared to the previous season. 

More than an increased physical strength, both teammates have noted growth areas in her confidence, mental strength, technique, and ability to read a race. They say she is also closing the gap with Van Vleuten in these areas.

"Yes, but I believe these came because I am stronger, so then I also have more space in your head during the race to make good decisions about what to do in the race," Vollering said. 

"Last year, I was so on the limit in the race that I could not think anymore. This year, it is all coming more naturally. I make better decisions, see the race situations, recognize the race situations, and know what to do. 

"These things go together hand-in-hand [with being stronger]. It is a big step I made, but I'm also physically stronger, which is why I'm also mentally and technically better."

Time trial nerves

Last year's Tour de France Femmes route included almost every type of terrain for nearly every rider, but if there's one thing the riders and teams felt was missing at the race, it was a time trial.

The peloton will race a 22km time trial that features a mid-route ascent and a slight rise to the finish line. Vollering said time trials are relatively new to her and revealed that she feels somewhat apprehensive about its position directly following the decisive Col d'Aspin-Col du Tourmalet and as the finale stage 8 in Pau. 

"The time trial could be very important. It's difficult to say this because it all depends on how it goes the day before but the time trial can be very tricky," said Vollering.

Vollering said she has been training on her time trail bike to find the fastest position. She recently finished second behind teammate Marlen Reusser in the stage 2 time trial at the Tour de Suisse. She was also second behind Riejanne Markus and ahead of third-placed Van Vleuten at the Dutch Championships.

If the gaps in the general classification are still close enough after the previous day's race up the Tourmalet, the stage 8 time trial will be the final test that could decide the overall champion of the Tour de France Femmes.

"I hope the time trial doesn't change [the Tour de France Femmes] so much for me. It's something that makes me nervous. It's pretty new for me, and I don't know exactly how it will go. You want to do a good time trial on the last day, and it's important that you are not losing time there. It's an important stage," Vollering said.

Asked if she would accept anything less than the overall victory, Vollering expressed that she is more relaxed in her approach and outlook toward her second attempt at winning the Tour de France Femmes.

"For sure, I want the yellow jersey. I hope that, for the Tour de France, I can at least wear the yellow jersey at some point in the eight days," she said.

"It would be cool to take it home, of course, but I don't want to be too focused on winning. I want to ride a nice race, enjoy it with my team, what I've done already this season, and this will be the result."

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Tour de France standings, results: Jonas Vingegaard posts emotional Stage 11 win

On the longest stage of this year's Tour de France , defending champion Jonas Vingegaard held off race leader Tadej Pogacar on Wednesday to win the 11th stage.

Recovering from a collapsed lung and fractured rib earlier this year, which kept him from riding for three months leading up to the Tour, Vingegaard caught and passed Pogacar with 30 kilometers to go to claim the stage.

"It's of course very emotional for me," Vingegaard said. "Coming back from the crash, it means a lot and all the things I went through in the last three months it makes you think of that and I would never have been able to do this without my family."

Two-time champion Pogacar (UAE Team Emirates) extended his overall lead to one minute six seconds over Remco Evenepoel, who finished third, with Vingegaard eight seconds further back in the general classification.

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Un vol Transavia vers Tel-Aviv contraint de faire demi-tour, les passagers en colère

Une grosse colère. Sur Linkedin, Isabelle Nizard, adjointe à la Mairie du XVIe arrondissement de Paris raconte sa mésaventure sur un vol Transavia parti de la capitale vers Tel-Aviv, en Israël, le 8 juillet dernier.

"Après 1h30 de vol, le pilote nous a annoncé qu’un problème technique nous contraignait à faire demi-tour car 'pas réparable en Israël'. Je me dis qu’évidemment la sécurité est une priorité mais je trouve étonnant que les Israéliens ne soient pas capables de gérer un problème technique. Après trois heures de vol, nous voilà débarqués à Paris. Le vol était plein de familles avec des jeunes enfants, des bébés, des personnes âgées", raconte-t-elle .

"À la descente de l’avion, on nous tend un papier avec un numéro de téléphone à contacter. Nous devons repasser la securité et ensuite plus rien. Nous sommes livrés à nous-mêmes. Nous ne savons même pas où récupérer nos bagages! Nous attendons avec impatience un message pour notre prochain décollage. Finalement je reçois un message m’informant que mon prochain décollage est prévu le 15 juillet! Transavia est incapable de répondre au téléphone et de trouver une solution. Je finis par acheter des billets chez El Al!", poursuit la cliente.

Transavia défend une procédure habituelle

"Après avoir récupéré les bagages, avec une grande partie de l’avion nous décidons de nous rendre devant le comptoir Transavia. Une employée Transavia nous hurle ceci: 'les passagers du vol Tel Aviv, vous n’avez rien à faire ici, on ne peut rien faire pour vous… dégagez'. Mon sang ne fait qu’un tour je me retrouve face à cette énergumène, je lui demande si c’est la provenance du vol qui lui pose un problème! Courageuse, elle me demande de dégager et part se cacher dans le bureau Transavia. Finalement, il semblerait que le personnel de bord n’aurait pas voulu dormir à Tel Aviv en raison de la situation dans le pays… Ce serait donc la raison de notre demi-tour!."

"Ce qui m'a le plus gênée, c'est le ton méprisant et le comportement de l'hôtesse de Transavia", nous explique Isabelle Nizard.

"Surtout, nous n'avons obtenu aucune info de leur part, aucune prise en charge. Comment ont fait les gens qui ne pouvaient pas racheter un billet pour rejoindre au plus vite Tel-Aviv? Par ailleurs, une passagère a bien entendu une hôtesse à bord disant qu'on pouvait réaliser la réparation là-bas mais que l'équipage ne voulait pas y passer la nuit" poursuit Isabelle Nizard qui ne "compte pas en rester là".

Contactée par BFM Business, Transavia explique que ce demi-tour relève des procédures applicables.

"L’approvisionnement de la pièce nécessaire à l’opération de maintenance n’étant pas disponible à l’aéroport de Tel-Aviv, l’équipage a appliqué la procédure de la compagnie, à savoir un retour à la base principale de l’avion, c’est-à-dire Paris-Orly. L’absence de disponibilité de la pièce aurait contraint Transavia France à immobiliser son avion plusieurs jours à Tel-Aviv", nous explique un porte-parole.

Ce type de décision n'est pas rare. Fin juin , un Boeing 777-200 de la compagnie British Airways avait décollé de Londres pour Hong Kong, mais après quatre heures de vol, l'équipage a été informé d'un problème technique. Au-dessus du Turkménistan, décision a donc été prise de rebrousser chemin… et de retourner au point de départ. L'aéroport d'Heathrow était la seule solution pour avoir accès à une équipe de maintenance de la compagnie.

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Même chose en mai quand un Airbus A350-900 d'Air France reliant Paris à Mexico a dû retourner à son point de départ alors qu'il se trouvait au large du Canada après 4h30 de vol. Direction Paris, seul moyen d'effectuer rapidement la réparation.

Concernant la prise en charge des passagers et la proposition d'un nouveau billet une semaine après la date initiale du voyage, Transavia se dit "consciente des désagréments causés aux passagers et leur présente ses excuses. Transavia propose aux passagers les places disponibles sur ses prochains vols à destination de Tel Aviv. Compte tenu du taux de remplissage élevé des avions sur cette ligne, la compagnie a proposé des places allant du 9 juillet au 15 juillet".

Par contre, la compagnie conteste fermement tout problème avec Israël.

"Transavia France rappelle qu'après l’attaque du 7 octobre, elle a effectué de nombreux vols de rapatriement et elle a été la première compagnie à reprendre ses vols depuis la France."

Quels sont les droits pour les passagers dans ce cas de figure précis? "Le vol est considéré comme annulé, et les passagers peuvent prétendre à l'indemnisation forfaitaire du règlement européen 261/2004 en fonction de la distance du vol: 250 euros pour les vols de moins de 1.500 kilomètres, 400 euros pour les vols intracommunautaires ou les vols de 1.500 à 3.000 kilomètres ou 600 euros pour les autres vols de plus de 3.500 kilomètres", nous explique Anaïs Escudé, fondatrice de Retardvol.fr.

"Ils peuvent aussi demander le réacheminement (exécution du contrat de transport) ou, à défaut, le remboursement du vol non exécuté et la prise en charge des frais, si les passagers se rendent à la destination finale par leurs propres moyens", complète-elle.

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Euro 2024: l’historique des France-Espagne, avec un petit avantage pour la Roja (sauf à l'Euro)

Un duel de vieilles connaissances. Ce mardi, en demi-finale (21h), la France et l’Espagne vont se disputer une place en finale de l’ Euro 2024 dans un choc entre deux nations majeures qui ont l’habitude de se rencontrer.

>> Toutes les infos avant la demi-finale de l'Euro France-Espagne

Dans toute leur histoire, Français et Espagnols se sont affrontés à 36 reprises toutes compétitions confondues. Avec 16 victoires à 13 (et 7 matchs nuls), la Roja domine les débats en termes de confrontations globales. Mais les Bleus, vainqueurs de la dernière confrontation (finale de Ligue des nations 2021, 2-1) ont un petit avantage lorsque les deux équipes se rencontrent à l’Euro.

L'Euro réussit plutôt bien aux Bleus

Avant cette demi-finale de l’Euro 2024, il y a déjà eu quatre matchs entre les deux équipes dans l'histoire de ce tournoi. Deux rencontres ont tourné à l’avantage de la France (finale de l’Euro 1984, quart de finale de l’Euro 2000) et une en faveur de l’Espagne (quart de finale de l’Euro 2012). À l’Euro 1996, en phases de groupes, les deux équipes s’étaient séparées sur un score de parité (1-1).

Avec le huitième de finale de Coupe du monde 2006 (victoire 3-1 de l’équipe de France), où les Espagnols avaient manqué leur pari d’envoyer Zinédine Zidane à la retraite, la finale de l’Euro 1984 est sans doute la rencontre la plus mémorable. Le premier France-Espagne (2-0) joué en grande compétition est aussi celui disputé à la plus haute altitude, une finale au Parc des Princes. Il sourit à Michel Platini, auteur de son neuvième but du tournoi en trompant le malheureux Luis Arconada, qui laisse filer son coup franc sous son ventre. Bruno Bellone ajoutera un deuxième but en fin de rencontre, d'un subtil ballon piqué.

• Confrontations globales

• 36 confrontations (toutes compétitions confondues)
• 16 victoires de l’Espagne
• 13 victoires de la France
• 7 matchs nuls
• 64 buts pour l’Espagne
• 39 buts pour la France

• Confrontation à l’Euro

(2 victoires pour la France, 1 victoire pour l’Espagne, 1 match nul)

• Euro 1984 (finale): France 2-0 Espagne
• Euro 1996 (phase de groupes): France 1-1 Espagne
• Euro 2000 (quart de finale): France 2-1 Espagne
• Euro 2012 (quart de finale): France 0-2 Espagne

• La dernière confrontation

• Finale de Ligue des nations, 10 octobre 2021: France 2-1 Espagne (Oyarzabal ; Benzema, Mbappé)

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"Un capitaine indigne", Petit agacé par l'Euro de Mbappé avec les Bleus

France-espagne: masque de mbappé, colère puis abattement de deschamps, amertume de griezmann… les coulisses de l’élimination des bleus, "passe à autre chose": riolo demande à deschamps de quitter le banc des bleus après l'élimination à l'euro, france-espagne: "je n’ai pas été bon", le discours très cash de mbappé sur son euro raté, "je ne veux pas que mon club soit couvert par la honte": benoit payan, maire de marseille, scandalisé par une possible signature de greenwood à l'om.

DIRECT. Pays-Bas-Angleterre: les Three Lions arrachent la victoire et rejoignent l'Espagne en finale!

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Pays-Bas - Angleterre : revivez la qualification des Anglais pour la finale de l’Euro

Les coéquipiers d’Harry Kane ont battu les Néerlandais (2-1), mercredi, à Dortmund, grâce à un but tardif d’Ollie Watkins. Les Anglais affronteront la Roja, dimanche, en finale du championnat d’Europe des nations.

Le résumé de la qualification anglaise contre les Pays-Bas :

Pays-bas - angleterre : le résumé de la victoire tardive des anglais, qui se hissent en finale.

Merci à toutes et à tous de nous avoir suivis

Merci à votre trio de Liveurs Vivement la finale, où les uns diront "Olé", et les autres "Ollie". Bonne nuit :)

Buenas noches, good night, gute Nacht Merci pour ce live

Bonne nuit a tous 👍👍

Merci pour le Live, tut tut! 📯 Chanson pour la finale : Hey Jude = Jude Bellingham

Et voilà, nous aurions pu être en train de commenter les prolongations mais Ollie Watkins en a décidé autrement. Grâce à cette victoire, les Three Lions affronteront la Fr… euuh l’Espagne dimanche, à Berlin, pour tenter de décrocher le premier Euro de leur histoire. Vous connaissez la musique (Hey Jude), une équipe de choc sera présente pour vous faire vivre ce dernier match du championnat d’Europe des nations.

C’était une nouvelle fois un plaisir d’être à vos côtés pour vivre cette qualification anglaise. Merci à toutes et à tous pour vos nombreuses contributions et à très vite sur les lives sport du Monde . Bonne nuit !

Les prochains lives sport du « Monde »

Ducoup on a un Remake du match de poule des bleus pour la 3e place ?

Hélas (ou heureusement), non, il n’y a pas de match pour la troisième place à l’Euro. Les Français et les Néerlandais sont en vacances.

La réaction de Virgil Van Dijk

« C’est terrible. C’était une belle bataille, mais on n’a pas gagné, et on ne sera pas en finale. »

« Ca fait très très mal. On se donne à fond. Et perdre à la dernière minute, c’est vraiment de la merde, excusez-moi. »

En images, la déception néerlandaise (on compatit)

La réaction d’Ollie Watkins

« C’est incroyable. J’attendais ce moment depuis des semaines et des semaines. C’était beaucoup de travail pour arriver où j’en suis aujourd’hui. »

« Je le jure sur ma vie, sur la vie de mes enfants, j’ai dit à Cole Palmer qu’on allait rentrer et qu’il allait me faire une passe décisive. Dès qu’il a eu le ballon, je savais qu’il allait me le passer. Après, il a fallu finir. Quand j’ai vu la balle filer au fond des filets, c’était une sensation incroyable. »

« Il y a eu beaucoup de critiques. Maintenant, on est en finale, c’est ce qui compte. Nous n’avons jamais abandonné. Il reste un match, juste un match. »

En vidéo, le résumé de la demi-finale

Le tableau final de l’euro 2024 .

Pour rappel, l’Angleterre retrouvera l’Espagne, dimanche soir, en finale, à Berlin. Les Three Lions sont en quête du premier sacre de leur histoire à l’Euro, tandis que la Roja compte déjà trois titres à son palmarès (1964, 2008 et 2012).

Merci les liveurs ! L'Espagne favorite pour la finale ?

Selon nous, oui, car c’est l’équipe la plus impressionnante depuis le début du tournoi. Mais après avoir arraché plusieurs victoires sur le fil, les Anglais se présenteront en finale gonflés de confiance.

L'Angleterre en finale? Elémentaire mon cher Watkins...

Un but et Ollie !

Deuxième CQTP gagnant. Bonne nuit. Faites de beaux rêves.

Point faible ? Trop forte.

Et les grands vainqueurs du soir sont...

Pas les Pays-Bas.

Mais Florian à Austerlitz et Anna. Avec à chaque fois le bon vainqueur et le bon score.

CQTP: 2-1 pour l’Angleterre

En images, le but de la délivrance pour l’Angleterre

Deux scénarios similaires

Une équipe qui ouvre le score et son adversaire qui marque deux buts ensuite pour revenir au score, puis l’emporter. 2-1 pour les Anglais, aujourd’hui, 2-1 pour les Espagnols hier. Qui osera ouvrir la marque en finale ?

Finale Espagne-Angleterre !

Vainqueurs de la France (2-1), les Espagnols joueront donc contre les Anglais, dimanche à Berlin. Une finale inédite.

Les 3 Lions filent en finale... à l'anglaise !

On est jaloux de ne pas l’avoir trouvé celui-là.

Le but de la victoire de Watkins en vidéo

Quelle fin de match les enfants !

C’EST NI-FI !

Le braquage anglais au bout du temps réglementaire ! Victoire de l’Angleterre 2-1 contre les Pays-Bas ! Ils joueront la finale dimanche, face à l’Espagne.

Deux minutes de temps additionnel

On en a déjà joué quatre. On pense qu’il y en aura plus.

Des changements dans tous les sens

Saka et Mainoo laissent leur place à Gallagher et Konsa.

Et Simons et Dumfries laissent leur place à Zirkzee et Brobbey.

Le programme

Live animé par Grégor Brandy , Florian Lefèvre et Mathieu Maine

Bienvenue dans ce direct consacré à la deuxième demi-finale de l’Euro 2024, opposant les Pays-Bas à l’Angleterre.

De quoi s’agit-il ? De la seconde demi-finale du championnat d’Europe des nations, qui oppose les Pays-Bas, vainqueurs de la Turquie au tour précédent (2-1), à l’Angleterre, qui a éliminé la Suisse aux tirs au but (1-1, 5-3 t.a.b.) en quarts de finale. Le vainqueur affrontera l’Espagne en finale, dimanche.

Où ? Au Signal Iduna Park de Dortmund (anciennement Westfalenstadion).

A quelle heure ? 21 heures.

Sur quelles chaînes ? M6 et BeIN Sports 1.

Qui live ? Une attaque à trois composée de Mathieu Maine, Florian Lefèvre et Grégor Brandy, en direct depuis le kop d’Austerlitz.

La composition officielle des équipes :

Verbruggen − Dumfries, De Vrij, Van Dijk (cap.), Aké − Schouten, Reijnders − Malen, Simons, Gakpo − Depay.

Sélectionneur  : Ronald Koeman

• Angleterre :

Pickford - Walker, Stones, Guéhi, Trippier - Rice, Mainoo - Saka, Bellingham, Foden - Kane (cap).

Sélectionneur  : Gareth Southgate

Qui arbitre ? L’Allemand Felix Zwayer.

De quoi ne parlera-t-on pas ? Des concours de recrutement d’enseignants qui n’ont pas fait le plein et de la crise qui se poursuit.

A lire en attendant :

Tous nos articles sur l’Euro 2024

La fiche des Pays-Bas

La fiche de l’Angleterre

Les Pays-Bas éliminent la Turquie sur fond de tensions entre Berlin et Ankara

Portés par la fièvre orange, les Néerlandais ont rendez-vous avec l’histoire

Angleterre-Suisse : le résumé de la qualification des Three Lions aux tirs au but

Autour des Three Lions, une ambiance de plus en plus délétère

Le constat lucide des Bleus après la leçon espagnole à l’Euro : « Ils ont mieux joué et mérité d’aller en finale »

Une fin d’Euro amère pour des Bleus surclassés

« Cet Euro dévalué invite à restaurer la beauté du football des nations »

Les résultats de l’Euro 2024 et le classement de la compétition

Le calendrier de la compétition

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Eritrea’s Girmay wins his second stage on this Tour de France

Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay has won a second stage at the Tour de France when he edged a sprint

COLOMBEY-LES-DEUX-EGLISES, France — Eritrea’s Biniam Girmay won a second stage at the Tour de France on Saturday when he edged a closing sprint to cement his status as the race’s fastest man.

Two-time Tour champion Tadej Pogacar kept the yellow jersey.

Girmay, who became the first Black rider to win a Tour stage this week, timed his effort perfectly at the end of the long stretch of road leading to the finish of Stage 8.

“To win one stage is already unbelievable, and winning a second stage while wearing the green jersey even more so,” Girmay said.

The tough false flat finish suited his style, and he made the most of it to beat Jasper Philipsen and Arnaud De Lie, extending his lead at the top of the rankings for the best sprinter’s green jersey.

“Today’s finish was perfect for me and I was super confident,” Girmay said. “I guess also then, the Tour de France being one of the hardest races in the world, once you win a stage you become aware that you are amongst the very best and that spurs you on.”

The stage finished in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, the home and final resting place of the late Charles de Gaulle. The former French President launched the French Resistance from a base in London and along with the Allies liberated France from the Nazis in 1944.

There was no major change in the general classification. Pogacar kept a 33-second lead over Remco Evenepoel, and two-time defending champion Jonas Vingegaard was in third place, lagging 1:15 behind.

The stage started with a high-octane pace as three riders — Neilson Powless, Stefan Bissegger, Jonas Abrahamsen — immediately jumped out of the peloton to open a 30-second gap at the front.

Despite having two men in the breakaway, EF Education-EasyPost riders later attacked from the main pack on hilly, wet roads and a group including Mark Cavendish got dropped.

Chasing points in the best climber’s classification, Abrahamsen went solo to the top of the Cote de Vitteaux and added more points on the slopes of the Cote de Verrey-sous-Salmaise and the following hills to further cement his polka dot jersey.

Helped by his teammates, Cavendish later merged with the yellow jersey group while Bissegger and Powless sat up. Meanwhile, Abrahamsen kept pushing hard on the pedals to increase his lead.

The pace of the peloton picked up in the second half of the stage and Abrahamsen’s long solo effort was brought to an end by the chase about 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the finish before sprinters took center stage.

There’s a tough stage on Sunday that takes the riders on a nearly 200-kilometre (124-mile) trek through the dust of the gravel roads near the Champagne city of Troyes. There will be 14 sections of so-called white roads — including six in the stage finale — that have become a trademark of Italy’s Strade Bianche.

Girmay also made history in Italy two years ago when he won a stage at the Giro d’Italia to become the first Black African to take a victory in a Grand Tour. But Girmay’s Giro victory was marred when he was rushed to a hospital after getting hit in the left eye by a prosecco cork he popped open during the podium celebration — forcing him to abandon the race.

Also in 2022, Girmay became the first rider from a sub-Saharan country to win a single-day classic at the Gent-Wevelgem race .

Riders from only one other African country — South Africa — have won Tour stages: Robert Hunter (2007) and Daryl Impey (2019). Four-time Tour champion Chris Froome was born and raised in Kenya but represented Britain.

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