Tour de France Femmes: Ferrand-Prévot closes on home glory after dazzling win
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French rider breaks away on the Col de la Madeleine
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Ferrand-Prévot: ‘It’s really been a team effort all week’
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, the Olympic mountain bike gold medallist at Paris 2024, took a commanding overall lead in the Tour de France Femmes after a spectacular lone victory at the summit of the Col de la Madeleine.
With one stage remaining in the nine-day race, the 33-year-old from Reims is on the verge of ending French cycling’s 40 years wait by ending the long wait for a successor to Bernard Hinault’s 1985 win in the men’s Tour de France.