Pro Log: Dauphiné kicks off; Demi Vollering on top; 2026 Tour de France Femmes to begin in Switzerland; Ally Wollaston wins Tour of Britain Women

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Pro Log: Dauphiné kicks off; Demi Vollering on top; 2026 Tour de France Femmes to begin in Switzerland; Ally Wollaston wins Tour of Britain Women

Welcome back to another edition of Pro Log. Here’s a rundown of the latest results before we get started:

• Critérium du Dauphiné, Stage 3, Tues 10th June: 1st Iván Romeo, Movistar, 4h 34min 10sec; 2nd Harold Tejada, XDS Astana Team, +14sec; 3rd Louis Barré, Intermarché-Wanty, +14sec.
• Critérium du Dauphiné, Stage 2, Mon 9th June: 1st Jonathan Milan, Lidl-Trek, 4h 54min 49sec; 2nd Fred Wright, Bahrain Victorious, +00sec; 3rd Mathieu van der Poel, Alpecin-Deceuninck, +00sec.
• Critérium du Dauphiné, Stage 1, Sun 8th June: 1st Tadej Pogačar, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 4h 40min 12sec; 2nd Jonas Vingegaard, Visma-Lease a Bike, +00sec; 3rd Mathieu van der Poel, Alpecin-Deceuninck, +00sec.
• Tour of Britain Women, Overall, Sun 8th June: 1st Ally Wollaston, FDJ-Suez, 10h 36min 45sec; 2nd Cat Ferguson, Movistar, +04sec; 3rd Karlijn Swinkels, UAE Team ADQ, +22sec.
• Tour of Britain Women, Stage 4, Sun 8th June: 1st Lorena Wiebes, SD Worx-Protime, 1h 57min 13sec; 2nd Charlotte Kool, Picnic PostNL, +00sec; 3rd Ally Wollaston, FDJ-Suez, +00sec.

Ally Wollaston wins Tour of Britain Women

FDJ-Suez’s Ally Wollaston claimed overall victory on the final stage of the Tour of Britain Women, beating Cat Ferguson by just four seconds. Wollaston never finished outside of the top eight on a stage, crossing the line in third for the last three consecutive days and taking enough bonus seconds on the final day to snatch the title from British hope Ferguson.

Ferguson finished second overall and took home the youth and points classifications as consolations.

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The Critérium du Dauphiné is kicking off

The biggest warmup race for the Tour de France. the Critérium du Dauphiné, exploded into life on the very first stage. Despite being pencilled in as one for the sprinters, it was an attack by Jonas Vingegaard sparked a GC battle to the line.

He drew out heavyweights Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel, Mathieu van der Poel and Santiago Buitrago and they managed to power to the line just ahead of the sprint trains with no time gap. Buitrago got swallowed up by the bunch and Van der Poel and Evenepoel tried to start their sprints early, leaving Pogačar and Vingegaard to come around them with the Slovenian taking the stage win.

Stage 2 was a more ‘normal’ affair with Jonathan Milan winning the sprint finish. Stage 3 threw the cat amongst the pigeons again, with a breakaway that including a couple of GC outsiders staying clear, with Movistar’s Iván Romeo riding clear of the group to take the win and the race lead.

Demi Vollering wins her fourth stage race of 2025

After success at the Setmana Ciclista Valenciana, La Vuelta Femenina and Itzulia, Demi Vollering has added another Spanish stage race to her trophy cabinet this season in the Volta a Catalunya. She finished in second place on the first stage behind teammate Elise Chabbey, she broke away on Stage 2 up the Coll de Pal to put over two minutes into all but one competitor (Visma-Lease a Bike’s Marion Bunel finished just over 30 seconds back), and led out teammate Loes Adageest for the final stage win in Barcelona to complete the FDJ-Suez hat-trick.

Vollering topped the overall standings by 2min 08sec ahead of Chabbey with Bunel a further 21 seconds back, and took home the points and mountains classifications too. Not a bad few days.

2026 Tour de France Femmes Grand Départ revealed

The 2026 Tour de France Femmes will begin in Switzerland for two and a half stages outside of France. Stage 1 will be a punchy loop around Lausanne over 137km, Stage 2 begins in Aigle and ends in Geneva for a sprint after 150km and Stage 3 will depart from Geneva and head over the border into France.

The 2027 Tour de France Femmes will begin in the UK.

See you next week.

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