{"id":190229,"date":"2022-07-31T17:37:02","date_gmt":"2022-07-31T17:37:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=190229"},"modified":"2022-12-23T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-23T06:17:14","slug":"van-vleuten-wins-tour-de-france-femmes-thats-actually-a-dream-that-comes-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2022\/07\/31\/van-vleuten-wins-tour-de-france-femmes-thats-actually-a-dream-that-comes-true\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Vleuten Wins Tour de France Femmes: &#8220;That&#8217;s actually a dream that comes true&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) wins in the yellow jersey on the Super Planche des Belles Filles and secures the overall title.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old Dutch superstar suffered a mechanical during the eighth stage and changed bikes several times. However, she made her move on the last climb and no one was able to catch her. Van Vleuten powered into the gravel finale alone enjoying the moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udfc6 \ud83d\udc9b \ud83c\udfc6<br \/>\ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvVleuten?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AvVleuten<\/a> \ud83d\udc51<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDFF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TDFF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WatchTheFemmes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WatchTheFemmes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2bYeLdYRx\">pic.twitter.com\/g2bYeLdYRx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeTourFemmes\/status\/1553768803158441987?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Demi Vollering finished 30 seconds behind Van Vleuten and thus securing the second on both stage and the GC. Silvia Persico (Valcar-Travel &amp; Service) finished third on the stage ahead of our expert, Kasia Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM), who secured her spot on the GC podium with her fourth-place finish on stage 8.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s actually a dream that comes true, winning in yellow on the top. Wow,&#8221; Van Vleuten said after the win. &#8220;It was not an easy stage. It was not an easy week. It has been a super big roller coaster for me and even today it was not easy. But I finished here in yellow, solo, the best way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Marianne Vos finished safely to secure the \u0160koda Green Jersey.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udfe2 \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_vos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@marianne_vos<\/a> wins the points classification. \ud83d\udfe2<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udfe2 \ud83c\uddf3\ud83c\uddf1<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marianne_vos?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@marianne_vos<\/a> remporte le classement par points avec <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeLoveCyclingFR?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@WeLoveCyclingFR<\/a>. \ud83d\udfe2<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TDFF?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TDFF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WatchTheFemmes?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WatchTheFemmes<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6TsBu4A5TO\">pic.twitter.com\/6TsBu4A5TO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeTourFemmes\/status\/1553785887376408578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to all! It has been a privilege to watch it all on our Instagram channel through the eyes of Kasia. Thank you very much and special congratulations to CANYON\/\/SRAM Racing on becoming the best team at the Tour.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgrIG5YoORr\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) wins in the yellow jersey on the Super Planche des Belles Filles and secures the overall [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":190233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[477,3771,2043,3136,433],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-190229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-annemiek-van-vleuten","tag-demi-vollering","tag-kasia-niewiadoma","tag-marianne-vos","tag-tour-de-france","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Van Vleuten Wins Tour de France Femmes: &quot;That&#039;s actually a dream that comes true&quot; - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Annemiek van Vleuten (Movistar) wins in the yellow jersey on the Super Planche des Belles Filles and secures the overall title. 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