Six stages into the Tour de France Femmes, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot - who dominated the race in 2025 to win by well over three minutes - is staring down a five-minute deficit to race leader Marlen Reusser (Movistar). But the Frenchwoman is not complaining of bad form. Quite the opposite; she revealed she hit a personal best power output on stage 5, just as she was being put to the sword.
It was expected that the multi-discipline star might lose some time in the stage 4 individual time trial, but not the 2:13 she eventually gave up to Reusser. And on Wednesday's hot and hilly stage to Beaujolais, it was even worse.
