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Tour de France Femmes Daily stage 8: C’est fini

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🗓️ 31 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The crew delivers one final episode from the ground at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift with Abby Mickey and Matt de Neef (plus a cameo from a familiar voice or two).

Plus, final audio diaries from Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek), Vittoria Guazzini (FDJ-Suez), Georgia Williams (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB), Audrey Cordon-Ragot (Human Powered Health), Ella Wyllie (Lifeplus Wahoo), Ashleigh Moolman Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal Quick-Step), and Jess Allen (Jayco-AlUla).

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0:00.0

Hey Abby, yeah, I'm really sorry it's so late.

0:02.8

Yeah, what a crazy day starting.

0:06.1

A bike race at quarter past four, yeah, it was quite a challenge,

0:11.5

getting massage and dinners and everything done but now finally

0:14.6

time to turn off the light and go to sleep.

0:17.4

Yeah it was a pretty brutal day.

0:20.5

My team once again did an incredible job looking after me, positioning me going into the cul-de-aspan.

0:27.0

Yeah, I'd say Moby Star did something really crazy with their pacing on the cold west barn. I think at the end of the day it was to the detriment of Anameek as well.

0:41.0

So yeah, they were a little bit too ambitious, I would say.

0:46.4

However, I'm really happy with the way that I managed to keep my composure, pace myself together with Juliet Lebeau.

0:55.2

So even though we didn't follow in the Aspan,

0:58.8

everything stayed within reach, going into the Tomelay. There are some really crazy tactics up the road obviously an incredible ride from Kaseh.

1:08.0

Massive kudos for that.

1:12.0

That was really something quite spectacular.

1:15.0

And when I heard over the radio that Kaseo was up the road and Anami and Demi were playing games,

1:21.0

yeah, it was, I couldn't actually believe it to be honest I was like what am I

1:25.6

hearing correctly. Anyways yeah it all came back together with Anameek and Demi before the Tomalee.

1:33.7

Marlin did a crazy pace on the beginning part of the Tomalee.

1:38.6

However, she felt a little bit short, which was

1:45.0

literally within reach but Marlon stopped and I think yeah that influenced things quite heavily

1:51.0

of course now in hindsight I think to myself

1:54.8

oh should I have jumped? Could I have jumped? I don't know it's easy to say in

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