THEMOVE - Demi Vollering Makes History | Tour de France Femmes 2026 Stage 9 | THEMOVE

Episode Date: August 9, 2026

Lance, Ali, and Mari break down the final stage of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes, where Demi Vollering put yesterday's drama to bed and made history as the first woman to win the Tour twice. The crew discusses how the final GC battle played out, with Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney securing second place and Marlen Reusser falling off the podium as Elisa Longo Borghini moved into third. Become a WEDŪ Member Today to Unlock VIP Access & Benefits: https://access.wedu.team Pioneer Pastures: Pioneer Pastures has an exclusive BOGO for listeners of THEMOVE. Go to https://pioneerpastures.com/themove to claim it. Honey Stinger: Use code THEMOVE25 for 25% off at https://Honeystinger.com/THEMOVE25

I mean, second tour, third stage win of this tour. So impressive. Quickly asserting herself as one of the goats in women cycling. Absolutely. And this is the first time we've had a repeat winner of the Tour de France Fama Vex-Swift. She won three stages out of nine. Incredible. Here we are.

Welcome back, everybody, the Moved podcast. Of course, I'm joined by Mari and Ali. Talking about stage nine, the final stage. A lot to talk about. lot to reflect upon, I think, what was, well, was certainly shaping up to be an exciting tour de France fam. Dimmie Vollering had a different idea. What a race.

Just a masterclass, masterclass. Absolute masterclass. Of course, also joined by Melhyn Kappi. Mel, tell us what we did today. Hey, Lance, just do your life. Oh, come on. Stage nine from niece to Nietz. niece to niece.

Yeah, when it's not that exciting, you know, in terms of the niece to niece, like she had to add a little bit, right, to do the life. Just do the life. When Jordan, when you responded. Well, yeah, because it's an inside joke. But when George and her first started dating, you know, English was just not great. And then it started to get a little better and a little better. And we were, of course, all such great friends.

And, you know, then her English was getting to a place where, like, all right, I can give this girl a little grief. Just kind of rib her a little bit. But still not good enough, her English, to come back with something. So you would see her. She'd get so frustrated. And then one day she goes, Los, just do your life. And I go, excuse me? No, I will.

I promise. I was like, do your life. If that's your comeback, like, girl. I love it. I mean, I love it, too. And it's become, I don't know. It should be a mantra. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It should be a T-shirt. Oh, next year. We're 25 years into this thing. And it's still to this day, you know, she'll, you know, at the most of the perfect time. Do your life. And I'm like, 25 years later, I'm like, yep, I am. Well, Demi did her life. Demi Bollering.

As we said, complete masterclass kind of puts it all. of the, you know, I hate to say controversy, but it was. It was controversial yesterday at the finish. They carried on the controversy into today. You even saw early in the stage. Of course, we're not in the group. But these cameras, kids, they're always on. You caught a little dialogue between her and Cassia and then the finger wagging.

I was like, oh, I would love to be right there and hearing what is happening. But Demi Vowlerin just, yeah, I mean, second tour, third stage win of this tour. So impressive. Quickly asserting herself as one of the goats in women cycling. Absolutely. And this is the first time we've had a repeat winner of the Tour de France Phamovinax-Wift. She won three stages out of nine. Incredible.

And you guys might remember, too, that she came from a, she was a florist. So her family owns the and cell hydrange. so they grow them and she started speed skating. Didn't start riding bikes till later. And then you know this lance too. You can see it up on this screen. Come on. She loves her dog flow.

She trains with her dog in a backpack. So much, like so many times. I was looking at the flowers. Like the dog thing, we're done. But this part of Holland, I've spent a lot of time in this part of Holland. It is all greenhouses. Like if you flew over, you would look down and just say, I mean, it is as far as the eye can see these greenhouses. And this is what they produce.

I mean, all over the world are getting these beautiful flowers. I didn't know she grew up in those parts. She's actually trained as a florist. Their family still owns a big, yeah, specialized painted, a special like hydrange a bike. And it's a big business. I mean, these things are, yeah, selling a lot of flowers. But, she, I think, though, we were talking about it before the show is that anything that happened yesterday, that's close now. No doubt.

There's no doubt. Oh, no. Yeah, that's right. It's interesting, too, just to go back to where she was born and raised, because I think people oftentimes assume that the best climbers in the world certainly were, if you're American, you were born and raised in Colorado or Utah or, you know, a mountainous part of California. Or if you're a European, you were born in the Alps or the Pyrenees. I mean, if you saw where Demi was raised, I mean, you cannot find a flatter place on Earth.

I was born in Dallas, raised in Plano. It's not as flat as where she is from, but it is very flat. The only thing we have is wind. So, kids, you know, you don't have to be born in the mountains to ultimately become a climber. I mean, I think we are born to be certain things, but the places that you, you know, learn to ride on and start riding on when you're young, that doesn't necessarily dictate your specialty later on in life. Well, also where you end up because you were talking about living in Nice. So you were living in the mountain. She now lives in Switzerland, right?

So, I mean. Yeah, I mean, that's a fact. I mean, you can't. She could not prepare for the tour to France amongst the greenhouses. You have to, once you figure out your super strength, then you have to train that super strength and play to that super strength. Which clue. I didn't know. I actually asked you all when we're watching.

Does she still live in Holland? She lives in Switzerland. Which is obviously the perfect place for her to live. She loves the Alps. They always go, her and her partner, Yon, always go out camping with the, flow the dog and they take out like for a big training camp so we were talking about different preparations but her preparation is a lot about joy and adventure so it's less like serious when it worked for her that's for sure it does but i mean we did show this on our show the other day but mount

von to was her first climb she ever did and so she just knows that the younger demi is proud of her and we're proud of her yeah and today she was uh as we mentioned yesterday that fourth and final circuit It was different. It didn't seem a whole lot harder. And it was just so interesting how, of course, Cassia attacked. When she attacked, you could see Cassia, that was everything. She said, I have this is, and you know what, you know, full props. Like you have to try to win the bike racing.

So therefore, she had to go as hard as she could. And you can see it. And she went at the steepest part. Right. In the perfect place. Now, you know, Demi, as we watched her behind her like, oh, this lady is fingers in the nose. And you were like, okay, this is. she is totally in control.

But for her to then get past the steeper section and over the top, you know, the Grand Corniche is not very steep. And for her to just ride away like that gets, you know, she got the gap. It goes to 15 seconds. Right away. Just rode her off the wheel. 15 seconds, 30 seconds. Next thing, you know, we're starting to have the conversation like, okay, this is over.

Just be careful on the downhill. And no, I mean, she got it up to a minute. And she, of course, was able to manage the downhill. She definitely wanted to prove a point. Yeah, she definitely wanted to prove it. She was trying to protect her teammate yesterday, worried about what people are saying on social media, things like that. But we entered today with eight seconds. We exited with one minute and 18 seconds.

So, Demi, point proven. But Lance, like, totally different than the Tour de France family. No, wait, Tour de France, affect the men. Avec dudes. Avec dudes. That's probably a better one. I like that. Totally different because we did it, no.

And we come in, and then it just is explosive and exciting. Well, we had five changes. of the jersey. Right. I mean, that's pretty unbelievable. And there were so many different ways that the race ended. I mean, when, what was her naming in Seagrid, her ride off there? Every day just got better and better. The racing was exciting and just the whole way through. You were on your edge of the seat like today. You were like, what is this so exciting? But, you know, back to what we said was going to happen today. Ain't no parade. There's no 41K to go. G.C. is over. Everyone, let's just go drink champagne. This was game on, race on to the finish.

And I think we have a very deserving. Well, Canyon definitely went in there, you know, to break up this race with Zoe Baxter on the front that. She was climbing out of her mind. Yeah, and dropping everyone. I mean, she just whittled that group down to where, you know, both she and Demi, those both teams only had one other, you know, I mean, they definitely went into race today. Which I think says a lot about Cassia and how likable she is. I mean, I don't know her. and I can just kind of watch the television and try to pick up on things.

But here's, you know, what you'll set at the start by all accounts. She's leaving that team to get those riders who know that you're my teammate today, but you're, you know, in six months' time, you're not going to be my teammate. To get them to commit like that and to open up the race, I think it says a lot for how well-liked she is. And, you know, it's funny. I often don't care about those things or think about those things because it just doesn't matter to me much. but it matters in cycling actually. I mean, this thing, bike racing is obviously, and things like the tour are, I think,

some of the most extreme endurance tests in the world, but they're also very political. Like, these are things, you always have to have friends, you always have to have allies, and to see that team commit like they did for a team leader that most likely is leaving, I think it just shows you how cool she is. She's super cool. I really, really does. And she is leaving to Little Trek, and she's got a multi-year contract there. She had a great teammate with her today.

She had Antonio Niedemeyer, and Lance, you called it earlier. You have been making the three calls. What's with you? I don't know. I'm taking my smart pills. And I was worried about it, and we have to talk about Marlon Roussel. I mean, she was, look, she wrote an exceptional tour. She won the time trial.

She was in yellow. She wrote it for her and her capabilities and her style of riding. She rode an unbelievable vauntube, maybe too good. If you look back on it. And as I said yesterday, I said, if she has a bad day and seeing Longo Borgini yesterday, she is getting third. And Marlon Rooster is dropping down. Now, I'll also give Marlon Rooster props because she ain't one of these people. It's like, I have to fight to stay in the top ten.

Once she lost the podium, I think, I mean, we had to sit around forever to see her cross the line. The doctor was like, you know what? It's over. Yeah. She had a parade. And I think she deserved that parade. Yeah, well, she was suffering on the early circuits got dropped and then unfortunately crashed. And that was it.

But I think she leaves, you know, if you'd have told her before the tour, listen, you can come in, you can win the time trial. You're going to wear yellow a couple days. You're going to finish third or, you know, high up on the volunteer. Do you take it right now, sign this contract? She says, absolutely. So for her is 10 out of 10. Yeah. Her project, Dijon in the yellow jersey was perfect.

Project. What is that project? The time trial was in Dijon. Oh, there you go. And yellow jersey and mustard is yellow. Anyway. You're right. I'm right that it's been a long time.

I did think I was losing my mind there at the end because I was, you know, we were watching Demmy so closely. And of course, this day and age and all the sponsors, all the manufacturers, they want to just make everything so cutesy and everything colored and all this other stuff. And at one point they showed her picking up a year. yellow bike. And I thought, hang on a second. Have I lost my mind? I'm, and I was like trying to do this. I know you were asking and I couldn't remember. I knew. I was trying to do this inventory. I was almost like rewind that. Yeah. Yeah. Like Kanye said to Chappelle. Rewind that. I hope that reference is right. But it's like what you were talking about. One of the funniest clips on YouTube ever. We said about Dave Chappelle the first time he met Kanye West.

rewind that. Well, that's a true story. You can tell. It's been a long month for the old man here. But it reminds me of what you were talking about the other day when she, who was it the finished on the spare bike? Remember? Somebody finished on a spare bike.

Kim LaCourt won the sprint on a spare bike. And we were talking about how any little change makes such a difference. And so her not riding that bike made a lot of sense. Listen, I mean, once once we kind of figured out that that was just, a photo opportunity. I immediately said, look, Demi Vollering knows. Colton has it on video if he did.

Yeah. So there's the finish, right? There's the bike that she has ridden for nine days. It's her custom painted tarmac, SL9. Okay. And then, whoops, here we go, bike change.

Photo op. Now, this may not seem like any. It's the same bike, too. Same brand. Of course, this is to our point, what we've been saying, it may seem minor, but it's not because she's so comfortable

on that bike. She knows that anything can happen today. It's a super critical day. Kids, don't change. Stay on the equipment that's been working for you. And as we've always said, you can get everything right. It never feels the same. And she chose to stay on the bike, which I think is super, super smart. Now, not ideal for the sponsors and the manufacturers, but she, you know, she held strong on that and said, no, I have to stay on the gear that's been working for me. I love it. Yeah. That's the same thing. That's her SL9. that's custom painted for a European championship. Of course, they had that yellow bike ready for,

which they knew then, huh? She would have spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on that bike. Yes. This is her daily driver bike. This is her race bike that she loves. And we did talk about this. We had questions the other day a little bit on gearing, so I double check to make sure.

I looked at what Kassi was riding, and I did double check it with Blaze. He works for SRAM. But a 50-37, so two-by. No one was riding the one-by. Maybe that's even a bike weight issue. I'm not sure. but that course was so fast in the downhills.

But 5037 and a 1033. You can't go up to a 1036, but it looked like to us it was a 1033. And Lance, you just was blowing your mind that they even needed a 33. And I'm like, why not 36? We've talked about this.

Yeah. I mean, I think if, because you don't know what the race is going to throw at you. So if those, if the first circuit or two or just, if people are tired, it's not animated, well,

then you have to, you have to ride in a 32. But it wasn't. No. This race was on and so they didn't necessarily need it. But it's, you know, it's a bailout gear and a gear where you can just conserve and I don't hate that. I don't think a lot about gear ratios anymore.

I bet there were a lot of girls in the groups back who were happy that they had the 32s. 32, 33, 36. Yeah, exactly. I'm telling you, more gears. You know who was impressive too was the green jersey, like getting over the first climb to take the points. This is crazy, Lance. Did you know this?

how close the close of points were between Dami and Lorena. Well, that's what Mari said. 34 points. Yeah. I mean, right now, as it finishes, Lorena Wayvis, 181 points, Demi Vollering, with three-stage wins and a bunch of other placings, 152 points. So it's... So she wanted those points.

Yeah. But she only needed a few, so... She got them, and then she sat up and had her... But she was in there. The group was already small. Yeah. Pucket-Dat Jersey stayed the same. I'm keeping Pucka-Dot.

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It seems like we're shaping up. I mean, now we can't do a stage preview. But it's kind of fun to think about 2027. You've got, and we were just kind of doing a quick skis. of some of the ages. This is a sport, a hard sport that ultimately you do age out of. Demi's official race age 29.

Kasi's official race age 31. You've got some young riders coming up. Of course, Pauline, you know, if you were to ask me, honestly, I don't know. I don't know if the injuries are such that it is just hard to come back, injuries and surgeries. It's just hard to come

back from. I want to say that she will be back. But this race is, this race is so exciting, right? And it's so different than the men's race that you kind of have to start to get excited already for 2027. Well, one of the things that's interesting is in the top five of the GC, there are two like U24 riders, which, and both of them worked very hard on their team. You know, Neidemey and Blasey both were completely working for their leaders. So, I mean, those are two big up-and-coming ones who I think are going to be really exciting to watch for a lot of years.

So, you know, I mean, there are just a lot of them coming up. And homegrown from Canada, that's really exciting, too. She was away and then got caught. But I think about it. And then stayed there. I mean, we commented like, hang on a second. She's not, normally you get spit out the back when you get caught. She was right there.

And she was eighth in GC. So, I mean, yeah, it's exciting. 21 years old. Her twin sister also races for Little Trek. She wasn't at the tour. But she's a world champion, U2, 3, mountain bikes, cyclocry. So this is her new in road. She has taken the best young rider's jersey at the Giro.

But I thought she had a very impressive ride today. You liked it. It was exciting. Yeah. She was putting the hammer down for sure. And you know, an exciting about this race you can look forward to, Lance, is that Zwift, as the title sponsor of the Tour de France Van Vex Swift,

they are signed in all the way through 2029. So you're stuck with me for a while. I think it's, look, if I'm Zwift, this is a good move. This is the right play to make. And it's almost like there's a lot of times things just become synonymous and they roll off the tongue where you can't find yourself saying it any other way. That's now the case with the Tour de France fan of Vex Swift. Like it just keeps going. Like it just the Vex Swift keeps happening and they're owning the event.

I love it. Right. We've got a different, different stuff to animal. I know. Scotty's been creeping over. You got me rocking this. I don't know why I didn't wear the hat or. I don't know what's going on.

You forgot. I did. But yeah, we got Scotty here. Yeah, but I think that just shows belief. So eight straight editions, and that's not just sponsorship. That is just watching the women race and knowing that this is a viable sponsorship, and there's value to that and taking a virtual platform and putting it into real life. So always keep watching the femme people.

Hashtag watch the femme. Watch the femme. If you want to watch an exciting bike race, then watch this one. Although today, you know, today was, I mean, Demi was so dominant. And it was interesting. They asked her in the post-race interview, did you ever panic? Like on Vaughn II, were you panicked? And I was, I was, I was so surprised.

She said, no. Like, I would have been panicking. And she said, I wasn't, I wasn't nervous. I waited too late. But I, but I wasn't nervous about it. And I thought, wow, that's somebody that knows what's up with what's up. Somebody who's confident. Very confident.

And we saw it. Yeah. And you saw it even there in the last 500 meters on Blount, too. And I said it. I was like, wow, it's almost like she knows what's about to go down. Yeah, she did. And I think she was super confident. She was doing those seated, just staying with it.

But I was thinking about this, Lance, though. And I don't like always compared to the Tour de France of Ecca dudes. But it's very rare that you caress the final climb, whether it's Von Tu, Alteu, Alteuze, all those epic climbs in France, that then the yellow jersey changes after that. And usually it's only been in a time trial. This is, I think, a pretty unique situation where it came from really dynamic racing, attacking in the unexpected zones. And I mean, I can think about Roblich versus Pocachar, but that's a time trial. Most of it was time trial. I can't think of anything else.

Three out of the last four days were surprises. Yeah. I mean, if you go back to Cassius Climb up, Fon, too, I don't think we, I think we all expected her to be there to have a good ride. I don't think we would have predicted she would have had the single greatest climbing performance in women's cycling ever. That's amazing. The stage yesterday, we didn't see that coming. And honestly, I didn't see today coming. I thought Demi's in a perfect place.

Like, stay there, control things. Don't fall down. You were so nervous. I was nervous. I mean, I know these downhills. Like, you can, you can, ask Marlon Rooster. Like, you can, you know, the race takes its toll after nine days. This is a hard stage.

Like, you know, it's easy to miss a corner. She has sharpened her claws overnight, I'm pretty sure. There was definitely some filing of those claws. She went out. Well, I hope they keep, I hope they keep the racing this way next year where they keep building all the way to the end. I mean, even though some of the sprint stages are the ones that we thought would finish more in a break or a sprint, even though those didn't end up quite the way we had predicted, it was so exciting to end on such a tough stage at the finish.

I wonder if that starts to be, and of course we'll find out in October when ASO releases the route for the men and women. I wonder if this is, you know, the Tour de France Femme of X Swift is now niece is their hometown, they're finishing town. I would love that. And ultimately, as we said in the men's race. If it is true, which the reports appear accurate, that they are going to make the Shamslaeia Park. Not sure what I think about that, but they're going to have to find a different finish there. Maybe we broadcast from Nees because Anna would love to come. Yeah. Liz, Mari and I are saying next year, we're in Nice. We are in Nice. What is wrong with this entire team?

Men, women, everybody, everybody's like, let's go here. Let's go there. Yesterday texting me. He's like, let's do in the highlands of North Carolina. It's the Aspen of North Carolina. I said, what's what the wrong with you people? We are in Aspen. It's just because you're like the mayor. But I will say this.

Well, I'll say two things. One, George, we are not going to Highlands. No, no. Number two, this idea of niece, all right. Liz, did you just hear that? But I have to say, like, one of the things having, you know, race bikes for so long and watched, what's going on in women's sports forever, there's a big part of me that just wants to be a part of it,

like be there and actually feel it somewhat because it's so cool. Well, I don't want to follow it every day. I'm saying we could stay in Nice and do our broadcast. Do binoculars count? Like I'll be from far away. But to actually get to. Yes, I feel it, dog. Yeah.

But to get to see what's going on in the women's sport. Like, that would be amazing. I'll be in the studio. I'll find you in the studio. Poolside. Poolside studio. I like this. I think that wouldn't be a bad idea.

I have some rosé. And with that. I'm going to go back to drinking rosé if you all make me go to Europe. Just kidding, Liz. Just kidding. Everybody listening. Long happened. Kidding, not going back.

Huh? They are. They are. I do think this is, and you saw it. Like you saw it in the race. And the other thing that the South of France does have is it obviously has incredibly hard writing. It has a lot of writing. There are a lot of roads.

And it's just endless writing. So you don't need to twist my arm on that. I love it. I think we're in. Anything else? I think I need to just thank you, Lance, for this incredible week. It's been amazing. We called it.

And it lived up to it. Like I saw these folks the other day and they were, you know, they were like, now we're doing the women's rate. And they were like, oh, wow, really? Wow, you're doing. It's been a long time. You've been said, you know what? But this one's actually close.

This is exciting. Like, I don't know what's going to happen. We need our questions. Oh, shoot. The voicemails. We are getting away. We'll do it quickly. We're so excited.

Before we get to our time limit and have to take a commercial break. Coltman, I'm my bad. And we're not going to give you the number because you can't call us and leave a voicemail because we're not going to be here tomorrow. Call her number one. Hey, Lance. I'm Don Augustine from St. Charles, Illinois. I was wondering if you could expound on team selection.

How does a team get selected? And how soon do they have to select that team before the start of the race? Thank you. It might have changed now. Look, all I know is what I experienced with Johan. And he took a military approach to selecting the team. And, of course, in my generation or my time, you had nine riders. Now they're down to eight riders.

And you have a couple alternates. but he would go through it and his process of selecting the team was obviously was perfect because it always worked out. And here's the thing is you're always going to have people. Nobody wants to be the alternate and nobody wants to not even be considered an alternate. Like there are going to be people upset every single year. And those people feel like they deserve to be on the team. Now, and it also gets hard.

Like you went a tour, win two tours, went three tours. You start going. These guys are like, dude, all I got to do is make the team. because if I at least just make the team, then I'm going to be on the team that wins the tour. So then the pressure and the stress of all that really compounds. And then you have to leave people at home, which inevitably you do. I mean, if you have a team of 22, 24 riders, that's a lot of people stay at home. Same goes for the women's tour.

But it was a whole process with him that we'll have him on another time. He would have all these spreadsheets and strengths and weaknesses and a point system. And at the end, he would say, yep, there it is. I mean, obviously I was selected. He would say, there's R8 guys. And there's the two alternates. Did you have, oh, any play in that? Like, when Johan selects a team and you're like,

eh, I don't really like that guy's wheel that much or his personality. A little bit. It would, uh, personality is more important than wheel. Yeah. You're going to be going to live with guys for three weeks, um, on the roads and hotels, dinner tables, buses. Personality matters. for sure.

That's why you like me and Murray. That's right. No, I think that was a good answer. I'm good with that. Yeah. Colton, call number two. Since we almost forgot to do them. I still have to do the boom stick.

Okay, caller number two. Hello, David Mink here from Durango, Colorado. Hey, how come the women's racing is so much better than the men? I mean, every stage is like a one big classic. Thanks. Love the show. Y'all, I mean, watch the fam. We agree.

We do agree. Every day was like a one-day classic. Super exciting, unpredictable. I think the race is being shorter does make the racing more dynamic. There's less time for the break getting a ton of time, the nature breaks, as the race is going. So I think a shorter race, and even Tade, I think I just saw a quote on him. Like, he's a fan of the shorter days just because it makes it more explosive and dynamic. Smaller teams, shorter days too.

There's not a rest day. They are like, like we talked about the beginning in our preview show. This is all or nothing. You got nine days. Well, and Demi proved to be, you know, in her own class at the end. But when we went in, we didn't know that one person was going to be able to walk away with it. And the way the racing developed, it was really exciting. So each day got better.

Yeah. And look, I mean, let's be honest, Taday is Taday. I mean, he is the greatest of all time. If you, he's certainly the greatest male cyclist of all time. and I would say that he's just the greatest of all time, period. So when you have somebody that good, there's nothing that anybody can, I don't care who it is. There's really not a lot they could do. If you had the equivalent of that in the Tour de France for Amavik Swift, it would start to, you know, we don't have that, fortunately.

I think it's exciting. And it makes it exciting, whether, you know, they play around with the stages and the length of the stages and how they structure the tour. But, I mean, we're just blessed to have, I mean, look, at the end, Demi was. Demi was Tade-esque yesterday and today. But she wasn't on the Bantu. For whatever reason, whether she waited or whether she was in this thing with Royce or whatever was going on, that doesn't matter. Like, this was exciting.

And so we benefit from that. So fun to watch. So exciting. But it was cute to see Tade and Torito. Torito out there both cheering on the Watch the Femm, the Tour de France Fama vex out there in like full regalia with their partner's names on their chest. They ride with their team jerseys? What?

They ride with their team jersey? Oh, they were just standing there. A T-shirt that was just like Urska on it. And then it was really cute. No, no team jerseys, but they did ride some of it. They were trying to stay a little lightning quite. Super cute, though. Some points.

I know. He's like, I'm winning. Oh, you dudes. But I think this has been an incredible nine days. We have covered 11774 kilometers, 18,000 meters of climbing. First time we've ever been on the Montfantu in this race. And five different women in the jersey from eight seconds to a minute and eight This was just, Lance, like I said,

thank you again for this incredible, like giving me the mic, which is always probably terrifying for you to give me a mic anytime. It's more terrifying that stick in front of you. Oh, speaking of a stick. Yeah, subtle, subtle hint. Boomstick.

Demi. Demi. Demi. Demi. Demi times three. Demi times three. You get the boomstick for being incredible, just incredible.

Master class. A deserved winner. Masterclass. And that's what you want in any tour. You want the, and what I mean, The best rider really always wins the tour. The men's tour, the women's tour, it doesn't matter.

She's a deserved winner. And so, and she demonstrated that in spades today. But I'm with you. You know, thanks, ladies. Thanks to everybody for tuning in, not just these nine days, the other 22 days we had for the Tour to France, Southwijk dudes. You changed mine, and I love it. And we'll be back in, what, 48 weeks? Yeah.

Well, we don't know, because we actually don't know when the tour starts. And we also don't know if they continue with this spacing. between the men's race and the women's race. There's been some years where they sort of overlap a day or two. We don't know. We'll find out all that stuff in October. Yeah, Mara, you make the everyday look easy. I love that.

And also our entire team here, everyone that's tuning in, thank you for watch the FEM. The more you watch women, the more they win. And I also want to thank Liz, Colton, Bolch, everyone behind the scenes that's keeping us relatively sane. I'm not probably included in that. And well fed. That would be Blaze keeping you relatively sane,

poor guy. Where's the sculpture? The statue. But watch the fam always, I think. And thank you guys. Thanks, everybody. One final time. Three, two, one. Bye.