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Saturday Sunday Cycling 1pm Tour de France Femmes live Pauline Ferrand-Prévot begins the Tour de France Femmes determined to repeat last year’s triumph, but the Frenchwoman faces a tough challenge in a field headed by her in-form Dutch rival Demi Vollering. Ferrand-Prévot, the Olympic mountain bike champion, returned to road racing two years ago with the Tour as her primary target, and rewarded that decision by becoming the first home winner of the race since 1989. She has carefully tailored her schedule to repeat the feat, finishing second at the Tour of Flanders and third at Paris-Roubaix before stepping away from competition after the Vuelta Femenina in May, where she finished 35th overall. Her Team Visma-Lease a Bike squad has been built around another bid for yellow and includes the triple stage winner Marianne Vos. However, Vollering is viewed as the pre-race favourite. The Dutchwoman has enjoyed a stellar season, winning the Giro d’Italia as well as several marquee one-day races, and arrives with perhaps the strongest form in the women’s peloton. Luke McLaughlin helms the stage one liveblog, with Jeremy Whittle reporting from Lausanne.
The final day of the 2026 Games sees 15 gold medals on offer and features the contest for netball gold, plus a compelling day of action at the Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome. In the women’s event, Great Britain’s Olympic medal-winning trio of Katy Marchant, Sophie Capewell (both England) and Emma Finucane (Wales) go head-to-head in the keirin. But the one to beat is New Zealand’s reigning Olympic and Commonwealth champion, Ellesse Andrews . The sprinter has been the dominant force over recent years, and became world champion in the event in 2023 in Glasgow. England’s Kadeena Cox has a strong chance of success in the Women’s C4-C5 4,000m individual pursuit, her signature event, which she won gold medals in at Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. In the bowling, Scotland’s Paul Foster and Alex Marshall are targeting a repeat of the pairs gold they claimed on home grass at Glasgow 2014. Rob Smyth and Daniel Gallan host the rolling blog, all the way to the closing ceremony.
The nine-stage route features nearly 19,000m of climbing, an individual time trial in Dijon and a potentially decisive summit finish on Mont Ventoux. It is the first time the legendary climb features in the women’s race. If that doesn’t decide the battle for the yellow, it could come down to the demanding final stage around Nice. Among those in contention are the Swiss rider Marlen Reusser, the Vuelta winner, Paula Blasi, and the former Tour champion Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney, while the veterans Elisa Longo Borghini and Anna van der Breggen cannot be ruled out. Sunday’s second stage from Aigle via the Vaudois vineyards ends with back-to-back ascents before the finale: a bunch sprint on Quai du Mont-Blanc. Alex Reid saddles up for our liveblog.
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