If anyone knows the importance of four seconds, it’s Demi Vollering. Two years ago, it was the gap that kept her from the top step at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, the time between her and the race winner Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram) – the smallest winning margin in the race’s history.
Stage one of this year's edition might not prove so decisive. But two years later, on the opening day in Lausanne, the four seconds fell in her favour.
