No Ta Doctor
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It's five DNF and four DNS
Tour de France Femmes 2026 ** SPOILERS **
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It's five DNF and four DNS
OP
OP
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
Yeah, just realised. Still, 5 is quite a lot.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Should DQ the rider and the DS for that sort of nonsense. That's not how to create a gap.
mjr
Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
- Location
- mostly Norfolk, sometimes Somerset
Why have they given the winner a ceramic toadstool? Where's the nice golden trophy?
No Ta Doctor
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I'm glad Vollering had way too much for Niewiadoma in the end, while it would have been funny if the race had been won by - say - four seconds, I don't think anyone wants to continue litigating Gery-closing-the-gate from stage 8.
A shout out to today's last finisher
115 - Jansen Eline - VolkerWessels Cycling Team - 32:52
The cutoff time was 32:57 😱 That's cutting it fine.
Nobody could be arsed to do a Lanterne thread this year, though I'm sure @Dogtrousers has been keeping an eye on it. 147 riders started the race, only 115 finished it, well done to all. Here's our final underall bottom ten. Picnic PostNL finally getting a win with Ireland'sMeg Mia Griffin. Congratulations on getting all the way to the finish in Nice...a whole five times!
A shout out to today's last finisher
115 - Jansen Eline - VolkerWessels Cycling Team - 32:52
The cutoff time was 32:57 😱 That's cutting it fine.
Nobody could be arsed to do a Lanterne thread this year, though I'm sure @Dogtrousers has been keeping an eye on it. 147 riders started the race, only 115 finished it, well done to all. Here's our final underall bottom ten. Picnic PostNL finally getting a win with Ireland's
Dorset Boy
Senior Member
- Location
- North Dorset or a mountain
Padant post - they only went through the finish line twice, once yesterday, once today.
They turned right just before the finish on each of the laps!
They turned right just before the finish on each of the laps!
Dorset Boy
Senior Member
- Location
- North Dorset or a mountain
Vollering just too powerful in the end and a deserved winner, taking 1/3 of the stage wins (Pogi can't even manage 1/4 in the mens).
Was a good tour, 5 different yellow jersey holders, and a good parcours raced well.
Was a good tour, 5 different yellow jersey holders, and a good parcours raced well.
OP
OP
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I certainly have. Romina Hinojosa was an odd one. She was anchoring the Lanterne Rouge from stage 3 on but in them last two or three stages she's been off in breakaways and all sorts of unseemly behaviour, but despite this she still managed to keep her place under the inverted podium. Robyn Clay is, as I mentioned upthread, most famous (to me) for stepping in for Katie Archibald at the London 6 day when the latter turned her ankle.
In other news Emilie Morier made the top 20. I'd decided to cheer for her for no good reason. I dropped her from my Velogames team and regretted it. She started well, in the top 20, but dropped as low as 34 at one point, ending up at 19 - highest place for a rider from a non-Womens World Tour team.
btw I think you mean "Gery-closing-the-gate-gate" not "Gery-closing-the-gate".
No Ta Doctor
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Dammit! I was just going to say "getting to Nice 5 times" but I thought some clever-arse (waves finger in your general direction...) would say it was six, because it was the start town as well today.
No Ta Doctor
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Here's the prize money from the TdF Femmes '26
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/prize-money-2026-tour-de-france-femmes
Total prize pool: €260,750
But before we go all in on having to increase the women's prize money to support the sport properly, it's worth noting that six teams made less that €1K and poor old Mayenne Monbana My Pie found they didn't get a slice of it at all. FDJ earnt nearly 30% of the prize pool, and the top three between them - all in the big budget category - nearly 65%. That's not an efficient way of helping out the smaller teams that are struggling (not complaining about this - it's prize money, it's not meant to be equal!). The Femmes prize pool was roughly a tenth of the men's - so just times the prize money by ten to see what a (weird given the fewer stages) parity would mean for teams. I don't think €3400 is going to be make or break for Lotto Intermarché, and Mayenne Monbana Can We Have Some Pie Please? might point our that ten times nothing is the same as the square root of f*** all
https://www.cyclist.co.uk/in-depth/prize-money-2026-tour-de-france-femmes
Total prize pool: €260,750
- FDJ United-Suez: €77,080
- Canyon-SRAM: €51,500
- UAE Team L'IMAD: €37,980
- SD Worx-Protime: €18,940
- Lidl-Trek: €14,880
- EF Education-Oatly: €12,140
- AG Insurance-Soudal: €10,480
- Movistar: €8,860
- Visma-Lease a Bike: €7,370
- Fenix-Premier Tech: €6,740
- Uno-X Mobility: €5,140
- Human Powered Health: €3,180
- Cofidis: €1,490
- St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93: €1,420
- Laboral Kutxa-Fundación Euskadi: €1,050
- Ma Petite Entreprise: €760
- Liv AlUla Jayco: €750
- Picnic PostNL: €400
- Lotto Intermarché: €340
- VolkerWessels: €250
- Mayenne Monbana My Pie: €0
- 7 Bahrain Victorious €86,820
- 8 Visma-Lease a Bike €71,210
But before we go all in on having to increase the women's prize money to support the sport properly, it's worth noting that six teams made less that €1K and poor old Mayenne Monbana My Pie found they didn't get a slice of it at all. FDJ earnt nearly 30% of the prize pool, and the top three between them - all in the big budget category - nearly 65%. That's not an efficient way of helping out the smaller teams that are struggling (not complaining about this - it's prize money, it's not meant to be equal!). The Femmes prize pool was roughly a tenth of the men's - so just times the prize money by ten to see what a (weird given the fewer stages) parity would mean for teams. I don't think €3400 is going to be make or break for Lotto Intermarché, and Mayenne Monbana Can We Have Some Pie Please? might point our that ten times nothing is the same as the square root of f*** all
mididoctors
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Movistar are low ... A stage and a bunch of days in yellow
No Ta Doctor
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Yeah, it's only €4k for a stage
