Greig Leach

Every post race interview Lotte Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) swears she is riding in aide of her team leader, Demi Vollering, yet she is still in the Maillot Jaune. With her lead in the Tour de France Femmes slipping away to those in the break away up the road, she finally has a dig to get away from the peloton and up to those who are threating her lead. She was quickly marked by Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) and the duo of Annemiek Van Vleutin and Liane Lippert (Movistar). Collectively, these six (there is a UAE Team ADQ rider mixed in there too) are a number of those that are favored for the over all once the peloton reaches Pau on Sunday. But there is quite a bit of racing today and over the next four days yet to be fought.