Tour de France Femmes: Mavi Garcia holds on to win stage two as Le Court moves into yellow jersey
Garcia, 41, opened up a ten-second gap on the rest of the riders only nine kilometres from the finish and managed to hold on over the final climb as the general classification favourites chased her down.
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Lorena Wiebes (Team SD Worx-Protime) came in second and Kim le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) finished in third, enough to take the yellow jersey — for the fastest overall time so far — from Marianne Vos (Team Visma Lease-A-Bike).
Sunday's results didn't change the other classifications as Vos held on to the green jersey for the points classification while Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) kept the polka dot jersey for the mountains classification and Julie Bego (Cofidis) kept the white jersey for the youth classification.
The second stage of the women's Tour was another hilly route, spanning 110km between Brest and Quimper. A breakaway formed early on in the stage but was caught by the peloton with 12km to go.
Dutch sprinter Charlotte Kool (Picnic PostNL) withdrew from the Tour ahead of Sunday's stage after her body did not react well in following a crash in the Baloise Ladies Tour around a week ago.
Stage three on Monday will be a flat stage, favouring the pure sprinters, and will take the race from La Gacilly to Angers.
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