Julie van de Velde (Fenix-Deceuninck) stole the show on stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes when she attacked with over 60km to go. She swooped up the last two mountain sprints to keep the polka-dot jersey in her team, taking over from Yara Kastelijn.
But as the peloton let the gap go out to more than two-and-a-half minutes and the long leash almost allowed Van de Velde to win the stage, only being caught on the finishing straight at Montignac-Lascaux.
