Demi Vollering of the Netherlands staked her claim to take back‑to-back Tour de France Femmes titles with an emphatic time-trial win in front of home crowds in Rotterdam, which took her into the race leader’s yellow jersey.
“I really didn’t see this coming,” a tearful Vollering, of the SD Worx Protime team, said after taking the race lead on stage three. “I had no idea that I could do this today.”
