The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift is not over. Thursday the official calendar still has stages after the Dijon time trial, including Mont Ventoux and a Nice finish on August 9. This paper's Wednesday note already treated the afterglow as a feed error. [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. [1][2]

Cyclingnews recorded Lorena Wiebes taking the first two stages. The yellow jersey after a Swiss opening is a photograph. The Ventoux is 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 Thursday postcard. A humanist sports desk files the mid-race hold. The afterglow is a feed error. The road is still open. [1]

Five stages after a Swiss postcard is still a WorldTour, not a souvenir. The afterglow is a feed error. The road is still open on Thursday. Ventoux is still the argument. Nice is still Sunday.

-- AMARA OKONKWO, Lagos