Tour de France Femmes stage 2 LIVE – Charlotte Kool leaves does not start second day

It is a special day for Kerbaol today as she starts in her hometown of Brest…

One non-starter today is the sprinting star and winner of two stages at this race last year, Charlotte Kool (Picnic-PostNL), leaves the race after not recovering from her crash in the recent Baloise Ladies Tour.

The neutral start is in around 10 minutes.

Yesterday’s stage gave some surprises. Elisa Longo-Borghini (UAE Team ADQ) being over a minute down in GC after bonus seconds was not on most people’s bingo cards.

The Italian champion and double Giro d’Italia Women winner was right towards the front at the start of the final climb yesterday but disappeared, finishing in 39th place 52″ down. Equaling 1’02” after bonuses.

To have a deeper dive into today’s stage, have a look at our stage two preview…

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Today’s stage starts in the home town of Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Educaton-Oatly), Brest, and finishes in Quimper after 110.4km.

There are three category four climbs and one cat three climb as well as the usual intermediate sprint. However, today there is the first of the bonus sprints which comes with just over 20km to go, shortly after the first passage of the finish line in Quimper.

Bonjour and welcome to our live updates of the Tour de France Femmes stage two from Brest to Quimper.