C'est parti pour l'UAE Tour Femmes, troisième course du calendrier UCI Women's WorldTour 2025. Toute plate et longue de 149 kilomètres autour de Dubaï, la 1ère étape s'est sans surprise conclue ce jeudi par un sprint massif, et celui-ci a été comme l'an passé survolé par la meilleure sprinteuse du monde : Lorena Wiebes ! Parfaitement lancée par son train de la Team SD Worx - ProTime, la Néerlandaise a réalisé une nouvelle démonstration de force et de vitesse, surclassant son habituelle rivale et compatriote Charlotte Kool (Team Picnic PostNL) dans la dernière ligne droite. Podium 100% batave avec la 3e place de la jeune Nienke Veenhoven, coéquipière chez Visma | Lease a Bike de la Française Pauline Ferrand-Prévot, qui a vécu un retour sans histoire sur la route.
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00:00It's a fantastic opportunity for them as they now get underway and it's going to be a hot
00:09race all throughout.
00:10Yeah, fascinating to hear Polly Ferran Prevo about whom we will be watching with great
00:15interest and no doubt chatting about her fortunes through the week and also her expected.
00:23Certainly and for three riders of every race you've always got riders who are representatives
00:28of the CPA so they're looking out for the safety protocol and also extreme weather protocols
00:34so here at the race you've got Mavi Garcia, Milena D'Souza and Soraya Paladin who are
00:38all the representatives.
00:39There is also becoming better known, a bigger star, more famous and that's to the ultimate
00:44benefit of the...
00:45Quick wave, no?
00:46Not getting a wave?
00:47It's the ultimate benefit.
00:48I'm going to hate that racing up and down a motorway, you know to within millimetres
00:55and half a second exactly whether your advantage is going up.
00:58We were expecting in the Dubai Harbour, we are around that final corner, we are inside
01:03the final 750 metres and it's SD Works Pro Time on the front.
01:07They have two riders remaining ahead of Lorena Wiebes in third wheel in that white jersey.
01:12There's been a crash behind in the peloton but at the front we are still sprinting with
01:16SD Works Pro Time and now it is the turn of Lorena Wiebes to launch her sprint.
01:21100 metres to go, Wiebes is on the front in that white jersey as European champion about
01:25to take another victory here in the Dubai Harbour followed by Kohl but it is Wiebes
01:30that takes the win, opening stage of the 2025 UAE Tour for women and the win has gone to
01:37SD Works Pro Time and European champion Lorena Wiebes.
01:42Men's patience there, the sprint's proper on now and it looked like for a moment I thought
01:46she might have left it a bit late but the minute she launched she was a bike lane clear.
01:50She was and Charlotte Kohl went early, she did go early.
01:54Look at this, Nienke Veenhoven, the young Dutch rider, the 20-year-old coming out fast
01:58on Charlotte Kohl.
02:00Brilliant performance from Wismar-Liesebaek and I have to say top job from Pauline Fermpreveau,
02:04a first stage race back after many, many years away from the professional road peloton.
02:09Placed her well along with Fidanza.