Surprise on the first day of the Tour de France Femmes, as Lorena Wiebes was absent from the sprint and in her home country of The Netherlands, Charlotte Kool brought in the win for Team DSM-Firmenich PostNL.
The opening day of the race was completely flat and an opportunity for the sprinters to take the glory and the yellow jersey. A few riders of the Tashkent City Women Professional Cycling Team were victims of the pace and three abandoned the race early on.
The likes of Gaia Realini, Fem van Empel and Grace Brown were involved in an early crash, and with 29 kilometers to go Amanda Spratt also hit the deck, but overall there wasn't too much stress in the peloton until the final kilometers.
Cristina Tonetti, Giorgia Vettorello and Iurani Blanco were the riders that made a move to form a breakaway but Tonetti was in fact isolated, taking the first KOM jersey of the race. She was caught with 60 kilometers to go. In the intermediate sprint Marianne Vos sprinted to first place, and then the fight for the leadouts began into The Hague.
SD Worx and DSM both had numbers in the final kilometer and it was a furious sprint. But main favourite Lorena Wiebes was nowhere to be seen. DSM did a leadout and when Kool launched her sprint she immediately got a gap over her rivals, racing to the first stage win beating Anninna Ahtosalo and Elisa Balsamo.
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| 1 | KOOL Charlotte | Team dsm-firmenich PostNL | 50 | 02:47:40 |
| 2 | AHTOSALO Anniina | Uno-X Mobility | 40 | + 00 |
| 3 | BALSAMO Elisa | Lidl-Trek | 30 | + 00 |
| 4 | HENTTALA Lotta | EF-Oatly-Cannondale | 25 | + 00 |
| 5 | VOS Marianne | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | 20 | + 00 |
| 6 | PIKULIK Daria | Human Powered Health | 18 | + 00 |
| 7 | DE ZOETE Mylene | Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling | 15 | + 00 |
| 8 | LE COURT Kim | AG Insurance-Soudal Team | 10 | + 00 |
| 9 | FAHLIN Emilia | ARKEA-B&B HOTELS | 8 | + 00 |
| 10 | VAS Blanka | Team SD Worx-Protime | 6 | + 00 |
| 11 | SCHWEINBERGER Kathrin | Ceratizit-WNT Pro Cycling | + 00 | |
| 12 | NORSGAARD Emma | Movistar Team | + 00 | |
| 13 | TON Quinty | Liv AlUla Jayco | + 00 | |
| 14 | SWINKELS Karlijn | UAE Team ADQ | + 00 | |
| 15 | BARIL Olivia | Movistar Team | + 00 | |
| 16 | GUARISCHI Barbara | Team SD Worx-Protime | + 00 | |
| 17 | SCHREMPF Carina | Fenix-Deceuninck | + 00 | |
| 18 | VAN EMPEL Fem | Team Visma | Lease a Bike | + 00 | |
| 19 | ROSEMAN-GANNON Ruby | Liv AlUla Jayco | + 00 | |
| 20 | DE JONG Thalita | Lotto Dstny Ladies | + 00 | |
| 21 | ALZINI Martina | Cofidis Women Team | + 00 |
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leedorney10-11-2026 - If I was Lucinda Brand, I'd refuse to wear the jersey. Is there a rule that she "has to" wear it, as the winner? It would certainly feel like stolen valor.wrsty10-11-2026
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- Saw a casual interview with Geraint Thomas and him a few years ago. Seems like a nice laid guy and I wish him well.GregT10-11-2026
- Ernesto Maggioni - The president of the commissaires Mafia. It is getting evident that this guy is basically "Iamalwaysrightandyouarestupidsoiwontlistentoyou" kind of guy. So fire him so that he can be always right in his homeabstractengineer10-11-2026
- Somehow it has got into his mind that he is a GC rider. He is primarily a classics and stage rider who can perform on GC given his day. As a result he is wasting his time on TDF GC and once committed to GC you are too tired to do anything else.abstractengineer10-11-2026
- 🐐❤️Lozza09-11-2026
- This is such a black eye to women's professional cyclocross if this result remains. Marie Schreiber won this race fairly. This finish is not unlike others in cyclocross. Lots of moving around to get to the finish not to cut anyone off , but to generate a sprint on soft wide tires caked with mud and sand. This is not nearly the same as a road race between two riders sprinting to the finish on faster bikes and thinner firmer tires. The powers in charge need to use some common sense, reverse this result and remember this is Cyclocross not Road racing. Unbelievable. . .Zencycle09-11-2026
- Tis beyond your comprehension fine sir so best not to look on with blind eyes to THE GOATS greatness.
Brucegel09-11-2026
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