Director of the Tour de France women, Marion Rousse delivered her prognosis for the fourth edition of the Grande Loucle female.
The Tour de France women is launched. And despite the shadow of the Male Tour de France, which ended this Sunday, the female race had a thunderous departure, from Brittany. The public was indeed present en masse by the roads and the first step gave rise to a nice audience success on the branches of France Télévisions.
The first two steps also delivered a few first lessons, some big names already appearing in the climbs climbed by the peloton. This is particularly the case for the world champion Lotte Kopecky or Elisa Longo Borghini, winner of the last Giro. The two women are already dropped in the general classification.
Among the candidates for the final victory, there are three of them having already made a strong impression: title holder Katarzyna Niewiadoma seemed particularly to his ease and it is also the case of Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, who discovers the Tour de France, and Demi Vollering, winner in 2023, second last year behind Katarzyyn Niewiadoma.
Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to succeed Bernard Hinault?
And for Marion Rousse, the director of the event, the Dutchman appears to be the “Big favorites”. A position assumed by the interested party. “Being in this position is a privilege, it also means that I have done things well and that people expect what I earn. It is rather a good message ”She explained in remarks relayed by the team.
But for the star consultant of France Télévisions, if no French runner does not seem to succeed Bernard Hinault, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot is undoubtedly the tricolor the best placed to register her name in the winner of the Tour de France. “We have been waiting for a successor to Bernard Hinault for so many years (among men) that you may finally have to turn to the female peloton to find the future yellow jersey”She blew up with the Huffington Post.
