When was the last time we had serious leadership drama in the women's peloton? The great redistribution of talent (and wealth) in 2024 and 2025 put a lot of those issues to bed, all the biggest riders finally on different teams, and we haven't seen many repeats of the Kopecky-Vollering Strade Bianche incident in the last two years.
However, on the eve of the Tour de France Femmes, it feels like leadership tension could be beginning to brew at the newly renamed UAE Team L'IMAD.