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RNZ News
3 days ago
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- RNZ News
Kiwi Wollaston makes podium on Tour de France
Ally Wollaston. Photo: FDJ-Suez New Zealand cyclist Ally Wollaston has grabbed another Grand Tour podium. The 24-year-old finished third on stage three of the women's Tour de France. The FDJ-Suez rider managed to survive a chaotic sprint finish to the 164km stage from La Gacilly to Angers. Sprint specialist Lorena Wiebes of the Netherlands made an explosive push for the finish as a crash in the final 4km temporarily took out several riders including 2023 champion and Wollaston's team-mate Demi Vollering of the Netherlands. Opening stage winner Marianne Vos of the Netherlands lost a photo-finish to Wiebes but reclaimed the yellow jersey from Kim Le Court Pienaar, who led the general classification after Sunday's second stage but dropped to second with a six-second deficit. The stage, mostly on a flat terrain, began without Giro d'Italia winner Elisa Longo Borghini, who withdrew from the race due to a stomach infection. Vollering, who recovered from the crash, remained in contention in the general classification, sitting 19 seconds behind Vos. Another New Zealander, Niamh Fisher-Black, is tenth overall, 25 seconds behind the leader. Wollaston won a silver and bronze medal on the track at last year's Paris Olympics and won world titles in the elimination race and omnium. She finished third on a stage of the Vuelta Femenina earlier this year. The Tour continues on Tuesday with stage four, a 130.7km ride from Saumur to Poitiers through another mostly-flat terrain. The Tour is over nine stages. -RNZ / Reuters
RNZ News
3 days ago
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- RNZ News
Sports News for 29 July 2025
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SBS Australia
11-06-2025
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- SBS Australia
Dauphiné, or the Art of looking ready, without being "totally ready"
This week, the SBS cycling podcast team dives deep into the action-packed Criterium du Dauphiné. The crew dissect the impressive performances of Tadej Pogačar, whose explosive start of the race and his sky-high win rate have made him the rider to watch. The conversation heats up around Jonas Vingegaard and the shifting tactics of Jumbo-Visma. With Vingegaard's aggressive moves potentially signalling a bold new strategy, the team debates whether this could be the winning formula to topple Pogačar. The tactical mind games are already underway, and every attack seems to carry Tour-level significance. The podcast also discusses the Tour of Britain and the rise of talents like Ally Wollaston, as well as the importance of the upcoming Tour de Suisse, and the return of Sarah Gigante.
Otago Daily Times
09-06-2025
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- Otago Daily Times
Wollaston thanks team-mates for victory
Ally Wollaston celebrates victory at the Tour of Britain in Glasgow. PHOTO: SWPIX New Zealand cycling star Ally Wollaston has sprinted her way to overall victory on the final day to win the Tour of Britain. The Suez FDJ professional went into the last stage of the UCI World Tour race around the streets of Glasgow trailing emerging British star Cat Ferguson, from Movistar, by 3sec. Wollaston revelled in the circuit racing, picking up the time bonuses in winning all three of the intermediate sprints in Glasgow then securing the overall honours with a desperate final sprint for third on the stage. It gave the Kiwi rider the vital last four bonus points to secure the overall victory on general classification. "I'm a little bit overwhelmed," Wollaston said. 'I knew it was a lot to pull off today, winning three sprints and having to still get seconds in the final. I knew the race really had to go my way today. 'I'm so, so immensely grateful for my team-mates for making it pan out that way. I really couldn't have done that on my own out there. 'If you looked at every sprint that I did well in today, I was never isolated. I had a team-mate going into the last corner every single time and it made a world of difference. 'This means the world to me. It's my first World Tour victory in GC. 'Often a lot of the times on the track, I race best in omniums when I'm not leading from the front, and I think I found it super-motivating today not having to defend the win. I find it a lot easier on the mind chasing rather than defending." Wollaston has won two world titles on the track as well as silver and bronze medals at the Paris Olympic Games. While the New Zealand star won a World Tour race in Australia in February, this was her first World Tour GC win in a stage race. "It came down to the last sprint, and there was a moment of doubt halfway through that last lap where I thought 'I just cannot do this today', and my team-mates really helped me pull it together and pulled me to the front for the final.'' The final stage was held on an 8.4km city-centre circuit in Glasgow. — APL
SBS Australia
09-06-2025
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- SBS Australia
Unclipped with Grace Brown: Inside FDJ-Suez - A Former Teammate Reads the Race
This week, Grace Brown breaks down FDJ-Suez's dominance across two key races on the women's calendar. In Catalunya, they won every stage and the overall. In Britain, Ally Wollaston snatched GC victory by a single second in a rain-soaked finale. The execution was sharp, familiar, and unmistakably FDJ. Grace knows the team's DNA, and she reflects on the measured, instinctive, and ruthlessly well-timed style. Meanwhile in France, the Critérium du Dauphiné lit up early, with Tour favourites already trading blows - a clear sign July's battles have begun.
