The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is not over. Tuesday is Stage 4, Gevrey-Chambertin to Dijon, the race's individual time trial. This paper's Sunday note treated the week as a closing ceremony. The official calendar still has five stages after today, including Mont Ventoux and a Nice finish on August 9. [1]

The fifth edition opened August 1 in Lausanne. Stages 1 and 2 stayed in Switzerland. Stage 3 crossed to Poligny. ASO billed 1,175 kilometres and 18,795 metres of climbing, the longest route in the race's short revival. [1][2]

Cyclingnews recorded Lorena Wiebes taking the first two stages in uphill and bunch sprints. The yellow jersey after a Swiss opening is a photograph. The time trial and the Ventoux are the argument. [2]

X likes the afterglow of a jersey on a Swiss balcony. The organizers still sell a nine-day WorldTour. Prize money and team budgets have risen since the 2022 relaunch. The gap with the men's Tour remains. That gap is not closed by a Tuesday postcard.

A humanist sports desk files the mid-race hold. The afterglow is a feed error. The road is still open.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos