Tour de France Femmes stage 9 LIVE - Gigante dropped as GC gets major shake-up

Niewiadoma-Phinney helping Labous on the front of the GC group as she rides onto the podium of the race with Gigante continuing to lose time.

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Gigante is not able to close the gap to the leaders. She is still over 2 minutes down on her rivals. She is currently dropping off the podium and is even in trouble from Wlodarczyk who is moving up to 5th as things stand.

Van der Breggen has been dropped by the GC group almost immediately after being caught.

The Col du Corbier is a brutal climb as the GC group have caught Anna van der Breggen after a huge solo effort.

Gigante is now two minutes down on the GC group. Her overall hopes may be done.

5km to the top of the Col du Corbier and just 16" split Van der Breggen and the GC group.

The GC group are reducing the gap to Van der Breggen to just 17" with over a minute back to Gigante.

Van der Breggen has just started the final categorised climb of the race, the category 1 Col du Corbier which is 5.9km long with an average gradient of 8.5%.

Gigante is continuing to lose time on her GC rivals and is losing her second place in the standings to Vollering.

40km to go

Van der Breggen has 40" on the GC group, 1'36" on Gigante and 4'02" back to the group of Kerbaol.

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The GC group are 40" down on Van der Breggen. Gigante is 49" off the back of the GC group.

Van der Breggen is in Morzine with a little kicker to come for her before the descent down to the final categorised climb of the Col du Corbier.

Gigante is 22" off the back of the GC group.

50km to go

Van der Breggen has 45" on the GC group then GIgante on her own. Kerbaol is flying down the descent now but is at 3'23".

Attack

Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)

She is pushing her rivals very hard on this extremely technical descent.

Wlodarczyk and Labous have made it back into the GC group again.

Labous and Gigante got back on during a little kicker but the Australian climber is immediately dropped as they go downhill again.

QoM (Col de Joux-Plane)

1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) SD Worx-Protime 15pts
2. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez 12pts
3. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto 10pts
4. Niamh Fisher-Black (NZL) Lidl-Trek 8pts
5. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Visma-Lease a Bike 6pts
6. Sarah Gigante (AUS) AG Insurance-Soudal 4pts
7. Dominika Wlodarczyk (POL) UAE Team ADQ 2pts
8. Juliette Labous (FRA) FDJ-Suez 1pt

Labous and Gigante dropped by GC group on the descent.

Niewiadoma-Phinney is really pushing the pace in the GC group now as Gigante is now losing touch again. Labous has been caught again.

Attack

Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez)

The French rider sits in 10th overall but has a lot of time to pull back.

Attack!

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)

She goes with Niewiadoma-Phinney, Ferrand-Prevot and Fisher-Black able too follow with Gigante gapped momentarily. However, the pace slackens. Wlodarczyk and Labous get back in again.

Vollering is really pushing the pace in the GC group but no-one is being troubled by it just yet.

Attack

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)

The Dutch rider goes but she can't distance anyone aside from Labous and Wlodarczyk.

Anna van der Breggen leads over the top of the Joux-Plane.

Kerbaol and Rooijakkers' group are now over three minutes behind the GC group.

Labous is doing a brilliant ride on the front of the GC group. Just keeping the pace high and actually reducing the gap to Van der Breggen to 1'10" again.

Kerbaol and Rooijakkers group are almost two minutes behind the GC group now.

Attack

Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Team ADQ)

She s quickly closed down as Labous is distanced again but she gets back in once again.

60km to go

Van der Breggen has 1'21" on the GC group who have just been rejoined by Labous and Wlodarczyk who are doing a superb ride.

Gigante leads Ferrand-Prevot, Vollering, Niewiadoma-Phinney and Fisher-Black.

They are 1'28" down on Van der Breggen who is 4km from the top of the Joux-Plane.

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Attack

Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)

She goes again to try and go clear before the decent and drops Labous and Wlodarczyk.

Van der Breggen is 5km from the top of the Joux-Plane. She has 1'56" on the GC group and 2'37" on the Kerbaol group.

Excellent ride by Emilie Morier (St Michel-Preference Home-Auber93) who is in the Kerbaol, Rooijakkers group just 40" off the GC group.

The group of Rooijakkers and Malcotti is joined by the group of Kerbaol, Muzic and Vinke who are 2'15" back from the leader and 34" from the GC group.

Brand is now working hard for Fisher-Black in the GC group.

Abandon

Alba Teruel (Laboral Kutxa-Fundacion Euskadi)

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The pace drops off substantially and sees Brand get back on and immediately go on the attack. That prompts Labous to go to the front and close her down again.

GC group are 1'09" behind

Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (Visma-Lease a Bike)
Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)
Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinny (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)
Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek)
Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez)
Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Team ADQ)

Labous is now in difficulty at the back of the GC group.

Attack

Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal)
Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (FRA) Visma-Lease a Bike)

That sees only 5 riders able to follow the top 2 in the race.

Justine Ghekiere (AG Insurance-Soudal) is ripping the GC group apart as Evita Muzic is distanced. She is closing into on Van der Breggen too.

Nienke Vinke (Picnic-PostNL) has been dropped by the peloton. The white jersey has a comfortable lead of almost 9 minutes over Julie Bego (Cofidis).

Squiban has been dropped from the peloton. Chabbey's jersey is safe for now.

AG Insurance-Soudal have closed the gap up to Van der Breggen to 1'30".

Just 8 points between Chabbey and Squiban in the QoM standings. Big points available at the top of the climb as well with 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point(s) available.

Crash!

Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly)
Magdeleine Vallieres (EF Education-Oatly)
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)

The latter didn't properly go down and is already back in the peloton. Kerbaol is about 40" off the back.

AG Insurance-Soudal come to the front of the peloton.

Some absolutely huge crowds at the base of the Joux-Plane greeting Van der Breggen.

70km to go

Van der Breggen has just under two minutes on the peloton as they start the monster HC climb of the 11.6km Col de Joux-Plane which has an average of 8.5%.

Intermediate sprint (Morillon)

1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) SD Worx-Protime 25pts
2. Lorena Wiebes (NED) SD Worx-Protime 20pts
3. Amber Kraak (NED) FDJ-Suez 17pts
4. Mischa Bredewold (NED) SD Worx-Protime 15pts
5. Lauretta Hanson (AUS) Lidl-Trek 13pts

A large group joins the GC group including Wiebes who quickly moves to the front of the bunch and she takes the 20 points in 2nd place in the intermediate sprint. She timed catching the GC group perfectly.

Van der Breggen wins the intermediate sprint in Morillon. Vollering could possibly move into third on the points standings if she takes 2nd but will she waste the energy?

Gigante is in the GC group after the descent. Much better from her this time. Just 16 riders in the GC group who are 1'46" behind Van der Breggen at the front of the race.

Attack

Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez)
Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto)
Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly)

That is very quickly closed down and that sees Muzic and Bauernfeind go back to the front again.

Bauernfeind is pushing on solo from the GC group to force FDJ-Suez to do more chasing while making it look like she was working.

Bauernfeind leading the GC group down the descent and immediately there is a split as some riders get caught behind Gigante who is starting to struggle.

Ricarda Bauernfeind (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) joins Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) on the front of the GC group who are 1'33" behind the lone leader, Van der Breggen.

Vollering tried to help her teammate and QoM jersey Chabbey in the QoM sprint against Squiban but she was unable to outsprint the young French rider.

Van der Breggen extends her lead over the GC group to 1'15" as Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek) rejoins the GC group.

QoM (Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse)

1. Anna van der Breggen (NED) SD Worx-Protime 10pts
2. Maeva Squiban (FRA) UAE Team ADQ 8pts
3. Demi Vollering (NED) FDJ-Suez 6pts
4. Pauline Ferrand-Prevot (NED) Visma-Lease a Bike 4pts
5. Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (POL) Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto 2pts

90km to go

Maeva Squiban has managed to bridge to the GC group and has a massive opportunity to take major points in the QoM standings.

Just 1km to the top of the Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse climb. 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point(s) available but no-one really involved in the competition are in the front of the race.

Labous continues to lead the GC group and managing the lad that Van der Breggen gets but it is expanding to 40".

Van der Breggen has 31" over the GC group. A group of the white jersey, Vinke, is 1'12" down and then the Chabbey, Wiebes group is 1'37" down. Several individual riders in the gaps between the groups.

Attack

Guess who!

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime)

She finally goes solo as Evita Muzic (FDJ-Suez) and Yara Kastelijn (Fenix-Deceuninck) start to struggling in the GC group.

Chabbey has been dropped by the leaders. Wiebes and Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) also dropped. Just 17 riders at the front of the race.

Visma-Lease a Bike and AG Insurance-Soudal did a great job to get Ferrand-Prevot and Gigante back into the peloton but their leaders are completely isolated in the GC group at the front of the race.

Attack

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime)
Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek)

The former world champion attacks for the umpteenth time today but it is being closed down by Labous leading th GC group as the peloton is now absolutely tiny.

Attack

Mavi Garcia (Liv-AlUla-Jayco)
Magdeleine Vallieres (EF Education-Oatly)

They are quickly dragged back. Several riders in the GC fight right up to the front of the peloton including Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) and Niamh Fisher-Black (Lidl-Trek).

Break is caught but Van der Breggen is shredding the peloton. Mavi Garcia (Liv-AlUla-Jayco) ups the pace further.

Attack

Silke Smulders (Liv-AlUla-Jayco)
Liane Lippert (Movistar)
Ruth Edwards (Human Powered Health)
Anna van der Breggen (Visma-Lease a Bke)

Multiple riders going out of the back of the peloton including several from FDJ-Suez and Visma-Lease a Bike.

The temperature today is currently 24.7°c.

Onto the 6.2km category 1 climb of the Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse goes the race with an average gradient of 7.1%. The first of three climbs that will decide the QoM jersey.

Ferrand-Prevot and Gigante group make it back into the ploton again. Panic over for now for Visma-Lease a Bike and AG Insurance-Soudal.

100km to go

AG Insurance-Soudal and Visma-Lease a Bike are working flat out to try and bring Ferrand-Prevot and Gigante back as FDJ-Suez and EF Education-Oatly work hard to stop them.

However, Justine Ghekiere and Kim Le Court of AG Insurance-Soudal are slowing the group and interfering with the pacing.

Breakaway caught by the peloton with the yellow jersey group now 22" off the back.

Gigante makes it back to the group that includes Ferrand-Prevot and Pauliena Rooijakkers (Fenix-Deceuninck). This is a nightmare start for these three riders. Visma-Lease a Bike desperately chasing as they are 25" off the back of the main peloton.

Polka dot jersey Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) and white jersey Nienke Vinke (Picnic-PostNL) are in the first split of the peloton along with Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal), Juliette Labous (FDJ-Suez), Demi Vollering (FDJ-Suez), Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto), Cedrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly) and many other GC riders.

Multiple riders have a gap off the front of the peloton as well including Lorena Wiebes as SD Worx-Protime clearly have a very attacking plan today.

There has been a split in the peloton with Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Soudal) being the biggest name caught out.

Four riders now lead with three of them being SD Worx-Protime riders.

Multiple riders are struggling to follow on the fast descent down to the valley floor as Brand and Kopecky are close to catching Van der Breggen and Gerritse.

Brand and Kopecky are 5" off Van der Breggen and Gerritse with the peloton 25" back with 111km to go.

Counter attack

Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek)
Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime)

If they bridge the 14" gap to the leaders, there will be three SD Worx-Protime riders in a four rider break.

Van der Breggen and Gerritse have a gap of 14" over the peloton.

Attack!

Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx-Protime)
Femke Gerritse (SD Worx-Protime)

Four other riders trying to join them then the chasing peloton.

The counter was too big and it has killed off the break with the peloton coming back together again.

Counter attack

Marie Le Net (FDJ-Suez)
Julie Bego (Cofidis)
Barbara Malcotti (Human Powered Health)

They bridge to Wiebes as multiple other riders are trying ti bridge including the ever active Franziska Koch (Picnic-PostNL) who has just jumped across the gap.

Counter attack

Lucinda Brand (Lidl-Trek), Henrietta Christie (EF Educaton-Oatly), Millie Couzens (Fenix-Deceuninck) and several others try a counter move to join Wiebes but they are caught.

Wiebes has 8" on the peloton as she tries to get to the intermediate sprint and confirm her green jersey win. She is about 50km away from it.

124.1km to go

The riders start the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025 with an attack coming immediately by Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime).

Puncture

Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime)

This may delay the start of the stage with 1km of neutral to go.

Neutral start

The riders have started the neutralised zone of 2km with a huge day for French cycling ahead. Winning the last three stages with Maeva Squiban (UAE Team ADQ) and Ferrand-Prévot as well as four riders in the top 10 of GC.

Gigantic crowds welcomed Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (Visma-Lease a Bike) as she heads into the final stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.

At least two non-starters today. Chloe Dygert (Canyon-SRAM-ZondaCrypto) has to leave the race despite making the time cut yesterday by just 11".

Brodie Chapman (UAE Team ADQ) is the other rider to leave the race. Her team only has 3 riders left. And, with Susanne Andersen (Uno-X Mobility) missing the time cut yesterday that sees her team down to just two riders and out of the team classification.

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Here's a look at the profile of today's stage, taking the riders from Praz-sur-Arly to Châtel with a finish on the uncategorised climb to the ski resort at Pré la Joux.

The main difficulty of the day will be the hors catégorie Col de Joux Plane (11.6km at 8.5%), along with other challenging ascents in the category one climbs of the Côte d'Arâches-la-Frasse (6.2km at 7.1%) and the Col du Corbier (5.9km at 8.5%).

With depleted energy reserves among many squads in the peloton, few teams will look to control the stage, which could present the perfect opportunity for a large breakaway to go up the road and take the victory.

Bonjour and welcome to our live updates of the ninth and final stage of the Tour de France Femmes 2025.