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Stephen Farrand

Visma-Lease a Bike rewrite Tour de France Femmes GC strategy after Pauline Ferrand-Prévot loses more time

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot of France and Team Visma | Lease a Bike Women prior to the 5th Tour de France Femmes 2026 - Stage 3 a 156.5km stage from Geneva to Poligny / #UCIWWT / on August 03, 2026 in Geneva, Switzerland. (Photo by Tim de Waele/Getty Images).

Visma-Lease a Bike were forced to rewrite their Tour de France Femmes race strategy after defending champion Pauline Ferrand-Prévot lost a further 2:35 on stage 5, with Femke de Vries now the team's best-placed rider in the GC.

Ferrand-Prévot could still attack on the slopes of Mont Ventoux to try to win the stage but admitted that her chances of defending her 2025 Tour victory are now borderline non-existent.

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