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00:00Yeah, I think the next dream is winning a yellow.
00:28Yeah, I think it will be really, really special, yeah.
00:34A bit of deception yesterday for Zero Expert time with Lorena.
00:37I guess today the goal is to take the revenge.
00:41Yeah, we try it again.
00:43And I mean, bad luck is part of cycling,
00:46but it's really shit if it happens on such a big day.
00:49And it was for her a really big goal.
00:51So we try it again.
00:52I think we get a lot of confidence from how we rode yesterday as a team.
00:55So we go for it.
00:58Are you happy with this fifth place?
01:02Fifth is not really satisfying, but yeah,
01:05you know, it's a bunch of sprints, so everything can happen.
01:08How strange, how special is it to ride two stages in the same day?
01:13It's special and it's hard, but yeah, I mean, it's going to be nice
01:18in the afternoon with the TT and we are looking forward.
01:22It's a day that will use a lot of juice, as they say.
01:26We'll have the recovery tonight.
01:28After all that, it's not long stages either.
01:30The schedule is almost a prologue.
01:33But yes, it's a different organization and we're really not used to it.
01:37But then again, you have to be able to manage a little nap, eat well, etc.
01:55Flat as a pancake for the 69.7 kilometers departing Dordrecht
02:06and arriving back in Rotterdam, a mass sprint once again expected.
02:10Lorena Weves dropped a chain to fall out of stage one contention.
02:14A second chance for her and everyone else to die cool in yellow.
02:20Stage two of the Tour de France Femme Avec Zwift is underway.
02:25Marianne Roos has dropped the flag
02:28on the race start, and now we get going.
02:35A short but intense morning's effort with the riders leaving at 10 a.m.
02:39The nerves evident after just three kilometers.
02:42It's an old crash.
02:44Some riders have hit the deck, that pinch point.
02:47Riders are going to the wrong side of the road here to try and get past,
02:51such as the panic and the chaos.
02:54The peloton sliced into tiny groups.
02:56Those cast adrift, having to work hard to reconnect.
03:02Olympic champion Kirsten Faulkner, for one, was hoping to work back
03:05into top form when the mountains come into view.
03:09GC, can it be an adventure for you?
03:12I think right now I'm quite tired.
03:13And if the climbing legs are good, that's great.
03:15We'll use them.
03:15But I'm not coming in with a specific training for that.
03:18So I think, you know, it's not number one priority.
03:22And I think that will kind of there's not as much pressure
03:25and expectations around my climbing right now.
03:29Fifty five kilometers left in a calmer period with the peloton made whole.
03:34The pace, as well as the wind, helped to shut down any escapes.
03:39Laura Tomasi tried her luck.
03:42Lidl Trek took responsibility for reeling her in.
03:45Yet Audrey de Kersmaker made hers stick.
03:49Do we get another attack?
03:51Nobody's reacted.
03:54The Belgian carving out a 20 second gap,
03:56riding strongly as others lost their balance.
04:01It's a rush.
04:02A number of riders with the deck again.
04:06Delixine Mermont stumbling for a second time,
04:09this time taking out Grace Brown, the Australian switching bikes.
04:13But OK, how much, though, would it take out of the Olympic
04:15time trial champion ahead of the afternoon chrono?
04:19As the riders entered the suburbs of Rotterdam,
04:23de Kersmaker's gap was fluctuating between 10 to 30 seconds.
04:27The Lotto Destiny rider finally ensnared,
04:30but the Belgian deservedly earning the combativity award for stage two.
04:35The question now, who would take the overall stage honors?
04:39Esti works prime time initially with control of the bunch.
04:44Fibus primed to try and deliver a fourth career win on the tour.
04:48Not a lot of space to work in, though, meaning plenty of bumps and bruises.
04:54As they came to the starting gun for the sprint,
04:57it was the big three to the four.
04:59Fibus, Foss, Koe.
05:04I think the next dream is winning a yellow.
05:09The yellow jersey has found a way somehow through those trees to the front.
05:14Now the lead out train starts.
05:16Look at the team of DSM Firmenek PostNL.
05:19Here goes Lorena Wiebes.
05:21Wiebes now trying to turn back yesterday
05:25as Marianne Vos starts to kick alongside her.
05:28Charlotte Akul.
05:29Look at the speed of the yellow jersey.
05:32Yellow jersey doubles up.
05:37Dreams come through quite fast these days.
05:41First yesterday and today already in this winning in this jersey is.
05:44Yeah, real special.
05:50I just launched my sprint and it was enough.
05:57Despite the early attack from Lorena Wiebes,
06:00Charlotte was cool as you like to make it back to backstage wins.
06:06Double Dutch delight sat home in the first foreign venture
06:10for the Tour de France fan of X5 and Dutch dominance
06:13with five in the top ten on the stage.
06:17Cool, just the third woman to win a stage while wearing the famous yellow jersey.
06:21Atosalo and Wiebes trail by 14 seconds with Vos up a place to fourth.
06:28If the yellow jersey does slip, Koe has a tight grip on the green points
06:32jersey to a hundred points means she's 39 clear of Vos.
06:35The Visma Lisa bike leader will remain the custodian of green.
06:40Shock news in the Netherlands.
06:42No change in the queen of the mountain category.
06:45Christina Tonetti knows she'll be starting stage four in polka dots
06:48even after the time trial.
06:51And therefore, all jerseys stayed where they started.
06:54And Nina Atosalo remains the best of the youth,
06:56but just six seconds above the next 11 white jersey wannabes.
07:00No time to rest, though.
07:02There's 6.3 kilometer time trial to contest.
07:05The only one of this Tour de France fan of X5.