Tour de France Femmes Daily stage 2: A very slippery day
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🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Abby Mickey and Matt de Neef are joined on the ground by Kate Wagner fresh off the men’s Tour. They talk about a tough day for the women from Clermont-Ferrand to Mauriac, with a fun little climb to finish off the stage.
Tune in for audio diaries from Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek), Ella Wyllie (Lifeplus Wahoo), Vittoria Guazzini (FDJ-Suez), Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step), Veronica Ewers (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB, Jess Allen (Jayco-AlUla), and Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Health).
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| 0:00.0 | The A v. A new tour of France Fam is the 2th of the E-Metap, |
| 0:18.0 | Clemonferon, |
| 0:20.0 | Morriac. |
| 0:21.0 | That's why, I be. |
| 0:30.0 | Well, Matt, we're here for Stage 2 of the Tour de France Fam of X Swift. How you doing? |
| 0:31.0 | I'm doing great. And we've been joined by another member today |
| 0:35.0 | fresh off the men's race. Hello I'm Kate Wagner do you want to set the scene do you want to do the |
| 0:39.9 | vibe check? Yeah I'm happy to do a vibe check. We're in a lovely little hotel restaurant in the town of Moriac, where the stage finished today. |
| 0:47.0 | We're about 500 meters from the finish, close to the press center. |
| 0:51.0 | It's all, everything's in close proximity which is really nice for us, |
| 0:54.6 | not a whole lot of faffing about after the stage. We've just ordered some drinks, some dinner, |
| 0:59.2 | and looking forward to relaxing after a big day of travel and writing about bike racing. |
| 1:04.8 | Yeah, Eris isn't here so I can't brag that I was right about the rain today. |
| 1:10.4 | Yeah, it's true. But there's a very nice draft coming from the door after yesterday was pretty hot. I think a lot of riders were maybe happy to have a little bit of a cooler stage today, but it did impact the race a bit and we'll get to that. |
| 1:27.0 | Stage was won by Leona Lippert, a really great ride from her with Lodo Kapecky coming in second holding on to that yellow jersey and Sylvia Persico third. |
| 1:37.5 | It was a really great fight for the stage, but the whole day, I think one of the most interesting things |
| 1:43.3 | going into the stage was that a lot of people said |
| 1:45.6 | it was going to be like kind of the second Queen stage, |
| 1:50.5 | that it was going to be one of the harder stages of the race and you'll hear in a bit |
| 1:55.6 | from Veronica yours so that it wasn't actually as hard as I think some people anticipated it to be. |
| 2:01.3 | There was a break of two that went earlier in the stage but got brought |
| 2:04.5 | back before most of the climbs and then an interesting QOM fight but it wasn't |
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