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Second victory in two days for the French Maëva Squiban on the Tour de France
Sport – Double blow. After her big number, the day before, in Ambert in Puy-de-Dôme, the Frenchman Maëva Squiban wins this Friday, August 1, her second stage victory on the Tour de France 2025 on Friday, August 1. The 23-year-old Breton runner lifted her arms to Chambéry, in Savoie, after a new lonely adventure in the last kilometers of the course.
« It’s just incredible. I had said that I wanted to attack the first kilometer, and finally I did it “Said the one who was ahead of his compatriot Cédrine Kerbaol and the American Ruth Edwards on the line almost a minute. His feat is considerable.
To win this Friday, Maëva Squiban went to the offensive from the first meters. She was one of the seventeen escapes that took the lead as soon as the Bourg-en-Bresse, the departure town of this seventh act. A group that melted to the rhythm of the three climbs of the day, all grouped in the last 50 kilometers of this 160 km stage between Ain and Savoy.
And as the day before between Clermont-Ferrand and Ambert, the 23-year-old Breton made her climbers’ talents speak to isolate herself in the lead, two kilometers from the top of the Col du Granier, 20 terminals from the line, by winning her ultimate rival, the Dutch Mareille Meijering. On Thursday, the cyclist of the UAE-Adq team had already produced a perfect race, signing a memorable success after 60 kilometers alone.
A double that also sounds like that of resilience. In May, after being overturned by a car in training, Maëva Squiban had to be hospitalized due to a cervical injury. His participation in the Tour was then uncertain. “But my team supported me by promising me that I will be at the start from home in Brittany. What happens to me is really incredible in terms of emotion ”she explained on Thursday in Ambert, after her first victory, the third in her career.
Regarding the general classification, the Mauritian Kim Le Court, sixth in the stage this Friday, retains her yellow jersey on the eve of the eighth stage which will see the runners measure themselves at the roof of the Grande loop, the Col de la Madeleine at the top of which will be judged.
