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The best photos from the Tour de France Femmes 2024
The 2024 Tour de France Femmes was unforgettable. With its first Grand Départ outside France, a classic double stage day, breakaway brilliance, a French victor and jaw-dropping drama from start to finish, it’s going to be a tough one to top.
While we’re fortunate enough that we can turn our attention from this race to the men’s Vuelta, we’re not done with the Femmes yet.
To fill our photo album from one of the best races of the year (and some are saying the best finish ever), we’ve selected our favourite pictures from the race courtesy of ASO photographers Charly Lopez and Thomas Maheux.
The GOAT has been inspiring future generations for years. She’s probably the reason half the peloton got into cycling.
It wouldn’t be a Dutch Grand Départ without one.
The sprinting war in the Hague didn’t go as expected with DSM’s Charlotte Kool coming out on top after SD Worx’s pre-race favourite Lorena Wiebes had a mechanical.
Dutch stars everywhere.
Stage 1 was no fluke though. Kool proved she was the worthy winner, outsprinting her former teammate Wiebes.
Out of all the days to have a mechanical in a TT. On your gold bike, on your first race since winning gold, in the Tour de France, in a race where margins are seconds.
Tour de France stage victories mean more, even when you’re defending champion.
As the race left the Netherlands, the hills began in earnest with a Classic stage, and the cream rose to the top.
Puck Pieterse has barely raced on the road in her pro career and is still only 22.
Next Dutch GOAT? You wouldn’t bet against it.
Shoutout to Tashkent City’s Yanina Kuskova, who finished the race despite losing all her teammates very early on. Big chapeau.
A classic photo of the genre.
SD Worx glory on Stage 5.
SD Worx pain on Stage 5.
Cédrine Kerbaol cemented her place in history as the first French stage winner at the Tour de France Femmes.
There were celebrations all round.
AG Insurance-Soudal’s Justine Ghekiere had herself a big day out in the greatest jersey in cycling.
Meanwhile the fight for yellow began.
Bam.
Think she might remember that one for a while.
Vollering’s attack with over 50km to go on the final stage set up one of the greatest day’s racing most of us have ever seen.
And an incredible Dutch display on the Dutch mountain had the whole world biting their nails.
With just two seconds separating Demi Vollering and Paulina Rooijakkers overall, there were mind games to be had.
But behind it was all about power.
Not a dry eye in sight. What a race, what a racer.
Chapeau Demi Vollering, that must’ve been the most difficult podium celebration she’s ever had.
That’s what team work does.
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