Tour de France Femmes: Blanka Vas wins stage 5 as Vollering loses yellow jersey after crash

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Blanka Vas (SD Worx-Protime) won stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes, beating Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), Liane Lippert (Movistar Team), and Kristen Faulkner (EF-Oatly-Cannondale) in the sprint of a group of four that emerged in a finish marred by a mass crash six kilometres from the finish.

The most prominent victim of the crash was maillot jaune Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) who ended up losing 1:47 minutes, relinquishing the GC lead to Niewiadoma.