Pauline Ferrand-Prevot won the last stage and confirmed his title in the female tour of France.
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The French Pauline Ferrand-Prévot conquered the Tour of French France at the end of nine stages, this Sunday in Châtel (East), where he also won alone in the last fraction.
The 33 -year -old French, a field Olympic champion through mountain cycling a year ago in Paris, and who lived her first participation in the French round, happens in El Palmares to the Polish Katarzyna Niet.
In the final general classification, she surpassed the Dutch Demi Vollering, champion in 2023 and relegated to three minutes and 42 seconds, already snowiadoma (more than four minutes).
A year after her Olympic gold, the French broker signed a new prestigious success that is added to an exceptional record, with fifteen world titles in several specialties of cycling (mountain, en route, in gravel, cyclocrós).
Forty years after Bernard Hinault and 36 years after Jeannie Longo, Ferrand-Prévot returns to the French cycling at the top of his 'great Boucle'.
This season, after seven years, mainly consecrated to mountain cycling, he had already won the Paris-Roubaix before focusing on the preparation for the tour.
In May, he left Spain back when he considered that he was not in his best way. Three days before the start of the Tour de France in Vannes (west), the broker explained that there had been three years to conquer the test.
Nine stages and 1,165 kilometers later, his first attempt was the good.
“A dream”
“It was so difficult … (this stage). I wanted to win here with the yellow jersey. It's a dream,” he said.
“Winning gold, that really the goal of my career. Winning the tour, it is more a challenge,” he said on Saturday after the strongest in the Col de la Madeleine was shown.
When expressed, it makes it often smiling, bright. But rarely speak in public. He prefers to focus on the tranquility of his home and training, with the least external contact. “I feel better when I'm alone,” he confessed.
To have news of her, you have to look at her Instagram profile, where she appears with her family or her boyfriend, also cyclist Dylan Van Baarle, winner of the Paris-Roubaix in 2022, or with her dog.
Popular and media success
Shortly after sealing her victory, the head of ranks of the Visuma-Lease team received the call from the French president Emmanuel Macron.
This edition of the female tour closes with great popular and media success, with audience figures of more than 2 and a half million viewers a day in the Gallic country, and 5 million peaks.
Currently, women are also cycling professionals (with a gross minimum salary of 44,000 euros a year guaranteed by the International Cycling Union).
Last year, the Polaca Katarzyna Nieves imposed itself with just four seconds of advantage over Vollering.
This year the difference was more important. But the show was also present. “Now there is a real level density, while a few years ago it was more heterogeneous,” says Christian Prudhomme, cycling director at the ASO organizing company.
Next year, the female tour will depart from Lausana, in Switzerland.
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