Women’s Tour de France: Marianne Vos, the queen who has always campaigned for the Grande Boucle

A rage of queens. There was only that to go looking so far in the pain and find at the end of who knows what more torture, the strength to surpass oneself. The energy to believe in it. Marianne Vos and Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig both suffered, dropped for a time on a particularly acid steep slope on these Champagne hills, before being reborn on arrival in Épernay to settle the small group of Tour favorites this Tuesday afternoon. The Dutch from Jumbo-Visma saved her yellow jersey there by finishing second. The Danish FDJ-Suez-Futuroscope took revenge on the ordeal experienced by her team the day before (multiple falls and abandonment of Marta Cavalli) by winning in the Marne city.