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Yara Kastelijn made up for the stage 3 heartbreak of her Fenix-Deceuninck teammate Julie Van de Velde, attacking out of the day’s breakaway and soloing to victory in Rodez on the longest stage of the Tour de France Femmes.
It was the first professional road victory for the Dutch cyclocross specialist and came after Van de Velde’s solo escape was snuffed out with just 200 metres to go on Tuesday’s stage to Montignac-Lascaux.
The mountainous finale also had plenty of intrigue for the general classification. The day’s escape gained over 10 minutes on race leader Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx), with Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Health) holding the virtual maillot jaune for most of the day.
However, after SD Worx sufficiently brought the gap down, Kopecky herself launched a solo move on…
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