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00:03 It's a debut appearance in the women's
00:12 tour for Tewksbury and Gloucester today,
00:14 stage three, 107.9 kilometers.
00:18 Two Queen of the Mountains points
00:20 and two intermediate sprints along the route
00:23 await the riders.
00:25 And we're off for the neutralized section,
00:28 11.6 kilometers of neutral to date.
00:34 Kilometer zero, away we go for this stage.
00:37 This is where we expect the general classification
00:41 in this year's women's tour to be given a real shake,
00:44 the first of three big days.
00:48 We're starting to get a little move on the right here.
00:50 And this looks like that style of Rihanna Marcus
00:54 from Jumbo Visma.
00:55 She lost some time yesterday, Hannah.
00:57 This is a perfect move here.
00:59 Yeah, unfortunately, she was involved
01:00 in one of those crashes towards the back end of the stage
01:02 yesterday.
01:03 So she's lost over 4 and 1/2 minutes at this point.
01:06 So she's no risk to that general classification.
01:08 And she's been given space at the moment.
01:10 Time move.
01:12 Rihanna Marcus, she comes towards the top
01:14 of this Skoda Queen of the Mountain.
01:15 She's going to crest this and take with it those six points
01:19 towards that classification.
01:20 So Rihanna Marcus crests the summit.
01:22 But in the distance, she saw there some dark clouds.
01:25 The weather's coming in.
01:27 But it's Elise Chabot that goes over the top,
01:29 takes second place.
01:30 And you can see now some of our big names
01:32 in our general classification riders coming over the top.
01:35 But gaps are starting to open.
01:37 40 seconds to Marcus.
01:38 You see the cracks that are beginning
01:40 to appear in the peloton just from the ferocious pace
01:43 from Chabot alone.
01:45 There's confirmation of your results.
01:47 So Rihanna Marcus takes the six.
01:49 Importantly, they're five for Elise Chabot.
01:52 And no points scored on that climb for Christine Magiris.
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01:58 Christine Magiris takes two seconds.
02:03 Gladys Verhulst taking that one.
02:04 One rider from Uno-X trying to get on terms.
02:07 There's confirmation of your results.
02:09 We have one Queen of the Mountains down.
02:12 One sprint, one climb to come.
02:15 29 kilometers to go.
02:17 Gladys Verhulst of L'Ecole Wahoo.
02:19 Christine Magiris of Team SD Works joining breakaway leader
02:24 Rihanna Marcus as we hit the second categorized climb
02:27 of the day.
02:27 Speech House.
02:29 But Gladys Verhulst starting to lose touch
02:33 with this breakaway group.
02:34 Marcus setting the pace on the front.
02:36 Going to be six maximum points over the top of Speech House
02:40 here for Christine Magiris.
02:41 There's no challenge here from Rihanna Marcus
02:43 whether the stages began to take its toll on her
02:46 having been out front alone for such a long period of time.
02:49 But five points to the Dutchwoman,
02:51 six to the Luxembourgish rider.
02:53 And the points behind are now critical.
02:55 Look at this, the sprint.
02:56 Elise Chabet, Ashley Moorman passing Kasia Niewiadoma.
03:00 The rest of the riders targeting the GC in this race
03:03 have got to be mindful here as Kasia Niewiadoma, third in line
03:06 here, is going to take points as well.
03:08 But Chabet leads that group over.
03:10 And we're starting to see some splits.
03:12 You saw Elise along Obegini just sensing the danger
03:15 and having to make up quite a number of places
03:18 there when she saw Niewiadoma beginning to go clear.
03:21 And there you have it, six to Magiris, four to Chabet.
03:24 That now puts them level on 18 points.
03:27 That's a categorized climb.
03:29 So there's still plenty more decisive sections to come.
03:32 And the challenge for those points
03:33 has done some damage to the peloton behind.
03:37 This is the uncategorized climb that we've
03:40 been looking towards today.
03:41 13% maximum gradient.
03:43 Marcus and Magiris swept up by the peloton.
03:46 And it's Kasia Niewiadoma, that familiar style
03:49 of the Polish rider from Canyon Tram.
03:51 And look how much damage that she's doing.
03:54 She's really splintering this front group now.
03:56 And Marcus taking a look over her shoulder.
03:59 She's going to have to accelerate
04:00 if she wants to try and remain with this select group that's
04:03 going clear now.
04:04 So cool, so calm.
04:05 Rihanna Marcus, Ashley Moorman-Pasio just alongside
04:08 Niewiadoma, Elise Salonga-Borghini
04:11 in that green, white, and red Italian champions jersey.
04:13 Elise Chabet, Alex Manley in the white, blue, and pink there.
04:17 And on the back, it looks like the rider from EF Education,
04:21 Tipco, Silicon Valley Bank, Veronica Uwes is there.
04:26 On to sprint two, and Elise Chabet leading out.
04:29 Three, two, and one bonus seconds.
04:31 And you can see this leading group still
04:33 managing to get clear.
04:34 There's not a lot of cohesion in terms of working it.
04:37 But Elise Chabet sprinting it out here.
04:39 She wants the seconds.
04:40 Manley took an absolute flyer from the back of the group
04:45 there.
04:45 Left it quite late.
04:47 And she just manages to steal that one second.
04:50 So Chabet takes three, Moorman-Pasio takes two.
04:53 Are they going to stay away to the finish?
04:56 Pfeiffer-Giorgi now moving up.
04:58 She's taken over from Megan Jastrub, Manley, Longo-Borghini,
05:01 and Uwe is poised and ready with Numan over in that white,
05:04 yeah, red, and blue Czech champions jersey right there.
05:07 And take a look at how calm, cool, and collected
05:10 Alex Manley is.
05:11 She's really focused on this.
05:13 She doesn't look too phased.
05:14 She looks focused on following the wheel of Lorena Wiebes
05:17 at the moment as we go through one kilometer
05:20 to go under that flamme rouge.
05:22 So Ellen von Dijk on the front, then Pfeiffer-Giorgi
05:25 in that white jersey, the red, white, and blue bands
05:27 of the British champion.
05:28 Carline Swinkles now through to the front for Jumbo-Visma.
05:32 Her teammate, Corinne Lebecky, about five riders back
05:35 as they swing left here.
05:36 But it's the British champion that takes that corner.
05:39 And look at this now, trying to deliver Wiebes perfectly
05:43 as Manley and Bussite get on terms.
05:45 There's not a gap between Lorena Wiebes and Pfeiffer-Giorgi.
05:48 Wiebes with full trust of the Englishwoman
05:52 and Manley having to make a slight acceleration there.
05:56 Pfeiffer-Giorgi now winds it up on the front.
05:58 Wiebes glances left as Manley goes.
06:00 Lorena Wiebes now launches a sprint.
06:02 Saw Alex Manley coming alongside of her.
06:05 Look at the turn of speed now of Lorena Wiebes.
06:08 She sees the finish line ahead of her.
06:10 It's going to be a second stage victory of the women's tour here
06:14 in Gloucester, timed to absolute perfection.
06:17 Yet again, Lorena Wiebes takes the stage with it.
06:21 Ten bonus seconds.
06:22 And that should be the yellow jersey as well.
06:25 The way that Pfeiffer-Giorgi piloted Lorena Wiebes there
06:28 into that finish was phenomenal.
06:31 And Manley tried to get on terms,
06:33 but the Dutchwoman just had that explosive power.
06:35 She had indeed.
06:36 What a team yet again, DSM.
06:40 Lorena Wiebes, two stage wins in the points last year,
06:42 two stage wins this year.
06:44 You take a look at this moment, Alex Manley on the left hand side
06:47 trying to get the the jump on Lorena Wiebes.
06:50 And Wiebes taking a look over her left hand shoulder,
06:53 saw that Manley was coming.
06:55 And that was the moment to go.
06:56 That was the moment to unleash that raw power.
06:58 The acceleration on the Dutchwoman is exceptional.
07:02 And again, two bike lengths over Manley.
07:08 There's confirmation of your results.
07:11 Second win in two days for Lorena Wiebes of team DSM.
07:14 Alex Manley getting up there in second for Bike Exchange.
07:17 J.Co. Corrin Lebecky in third spot.
07:20 Lorena Wiebes, perhaps not the rider
07:25 some people would have tipped as a winner today,
07:28 but she proves her versatility.
07:30 And deservedly so.
07:35 The Combativity Award goes to Team Jumbo-Visma's
07:38 Rihanna Marcus, a great day out in the lead.
07:41 Micah Vanderdaun retains the lead in the Pillar Red Sprints jersey
07:45 for Le Col Wahoo.
07:47 Christine Magiris still in the green Skoda Queen of the Mountains jersey,
07:52 but it's tight level on points now with Elise Chabais.
07:55 She was second in the Breast Cancer now, Pink Points jersey going into today.
08:00 Now has it in her own right. Lorena Wiebes, our points leader.
08:05 Ten bonus seconds on the line now puts Lorena Wiebes in the yellow jersey.
08:10 The general classification now looks like this after stage three.
08:15 Lorena Wiebes takes a 13 second advantage over Sofia Bertizolo and Alex Manley.
08:20 18 seconds separating the top 10 overall, but with a tough stage to come tomorrow.
08:24 Expect those gaps to grow.
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