If the Tour de France Femmes' race up Mont Ventoux on Friday saw Marlen Reusser slip out of the race lead, then a far shorter climb the next day may well have put paid to her chances of taking the yellow jersey altogether.
It all went down on a climb unnoticed in the race roadbook – a 450-metre wall hidden away after the last climb of the day, the 4.4% gradients of the Côte de la Ginestière.
