Ewers credits wide tyres for top Tour de France Femmes gravel stage placing

Veronica Ewers (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB on the attack during stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes 2022
Veronica Ewers (EF Education-TIBCO-SVB on the attack during stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes 2022 (Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

Veronica Ewers (Education First-TIBCO-SVB) earned her first WorldTour top-five of her fledgling career on Wednesday, navigating the gravel with ease and joining a late move on stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift and finishing fourth behind stage winner Marlen Reusser (SD Worx).

Ewers, who said she had only ridden on gravel "six or seven times" before today, described how she did not plan to be up the road on the gravel tracks between Troyes and Bar-sur-Aube.

Matilda Price is a freelance cycling journalist and digital producer based in the UK. She is a graduate of modern languages, and recently completed an MA in sports journalism, during which she wrote her dissertation on the lives of young cyclists. Matilda began covering cycling in 2016 whilst still at university, working mainly in the British domestic scene at first. Since then, she has covered everything from the Tour Series to the Tour de France. These days, Matilda focuses most of her attention on the women’s sport, writing for Cyclingnews and working on women’s cycling show The Bunnyhop. As well as the Women’s WorldTour, Matilda loves following cyclo-cross and is a recent convert to downhill mountain biking.