Tour de France Femmes already ‘more than a dream come true’ for Marianne Vos

ROSHEIM FRANCE JULY 29 Stage winner Marianne Vos of Netherlands and Jumbo Visma Women Team Yellow Leader Jersey reacts after the 1st Tour de France Femmes 2022 Stage 6 a 1286km stage from SaintDidesVosges to Rosheim TDFF UCIWWT on July 29 2022 in Rosheim France Photo by Dario BelingheriGetty Images
Marianne Vos (Jumbo-Visma) shows deep emotions with stage 6 victory, which adds bonus seconds to her lead in the yellow jersey (Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

Five days in yellow, two stage wins and the green jersey now almost certainly secured, Marianne Vos has achieved ‘more than we could have dreamed of’ at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.

After winning into Provins to take the jersey on Monday, Vos has defended her lead all week and Friday ticked off her next aim, winning in yellow.

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.