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Cycling Weekly
|August 07, 2025
"Géante." Read the cover of L'Equipe on Monday morning. The French sports daily led with a yellow-clad Pauline Ferrand-Prévot winning stage nine of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift as France was finally able to celebrate a homegrown Tour winner.
It is an extraordinary achievement by the veteran French rider who has raced mountain bikes almost exclusively, since 2018. Cast your mind back to April this year, and you'll remember her riding to victory at Paris-Roubaix. How's that for a first season back on the road? Winning Paris-Roubaix and the Tour the biggest one-day race and biggest stage race on the calendar. And on home s
This story is from the August 07, 2025 edition of Cycling Weekly.
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