The Tour de France women, a popular success carried out by the prowess of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot and the Tricolore runners

The mountain runs. Therefore, Saturday. Meanwhile, August 2, the rain, fine but obstinate, crashes on the rocks, infiltrates between the fir trees, descends the soggy slopes of the Madeleine pass (Savoie), as if the sky refused to make a truce. In this humid greyness. the decor seems almost unreal: mist of mist hanging on the laces, drowned peaks, grass full of water. “The weather was nice all week, Note Dominique, fifties from Saint-Pierre-d’Albigny, about fifty kilometers. The conditions are terrible but I brought the whole family and the cooler. The road was not easy because the roadway is slippery. »»

Like him and his tribe, the spectators braved the elements. They erected their umbrellas as colored tour de france women, popular standards in the gray of the day. put on the flagship raincoats and placed makeshift tarpaulins on the embankments. Between gusts. puddles, the fervor resists, stubborn, ready to salute the runners of the eighth stage of the Tour de France women 2025, which connected Chambéry to the formidable Col de la Madeleine (18.6 km at 8.1 %) and given the triumph of the French Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease A Bike). “I came from the Basque Country to encourage runners”thus relates Jorice. 25 years old – who like other people interviewed, did not wish to give his last name.

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