{"id":199183,"date":"2025-07-25T15:50:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=199183"},"modified":"2025-07-25T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:50:18","slug":"can-demi-vollering-win-her-second-tour-de-france-femmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2025\/07\/25\/can-demi-vollering-win-her-second-tour-de-france-femmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Demi Vollering Get Her Mojo Back and Win Her Second Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s hard to see how, barring injury or illness, anyone can beat Demi Vollering in this year\u2019s Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (TdFF). She is the most successful rider in the three-year history of the race, winning in 2023 and finishing second in 2022 and last year, when she was beaten by Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon\/\/SRAM-zondacrypto) by a scant 4 seconds.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The big favourite<\/strong><\/h2>\n

She is having a marvellous year, winning the Volta Femenina de la Comunitat Valenciana, the Strade Bianche Donne, the Vuelta Espa\u00f1a Femenina, the Itzulia Women, the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya Femenina and finishing second, to Marlen Reusser (Movistar), in the Tour de Suisse Women. That could be called Poga\u010darian domination. To say the least, her first year with FDJ-Suez has been a smash hit so far.<\/p>\n

This is hardly a surprise because she now has riders like Juliette Labous and \u00c9vita Muzic \u2013 who could be team leaders in their own right \u2013 riding in support. Labous finished fourth in the TdFF in 2022 and fifth the following year, while Muzic was fourth last year. Add the veteran climber Elise Chabbey to the mix, and you have a very strong foundation for the 28-year-old Dutch rider, who is, hands down, the best woman climber in the world. These are the reasons that Vollering is the odds-on favourite to erase the disappointment of last year, when a crash on stage 5 and the failure of her then SD Worx\u2013Protime team to help her finish the stage was fatal to her chances. That she made it so close at the end is a testament to her toughness and climbing ability.<\/p>\n

She\u2019ll need her best legs in this year\u2019s edition of the race, which features a lot of tough-to-merciless climbs, including the category 1 Col du B\u00e9al (10.2 km @ 5.6%) on stage 6, a finish atop the legendary leg-killer Col de la Madelaine (18.6 km @ 8.1%) on stage 8, the queen stage, and the HC Col de Joux Plane (11.6 km @ 8.5%) on the final stage. Vollering is not only happy about the support she has received from the team on the road, but she is also motivated by its spirit. The new FDJ-Suez jersey features a heart bearing the inscription \u201call light is born from a shadow, all success is built on the foundations of accepted setbacks and hard work.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team\u2019s values have an essential influence on our daily lives as athletes, in the hardest moments as well as the most beautiful,\u201d Vollering said<\/a>. \u201cThey remind us why we have chosen this way of life, this vision of life. It\u2019s an outfit that embodies our state of mind: behind-the-scenes efforts contribute to our success and our influence.\u201d<\/p>\n

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