French rider attacks on Col du Granier to take stage seven
Kim Le Court dropped but recovers to retain yellow jersey
Riding a wave of home support, French rider Maëva Squiban shocked the peloton for the second successive day with a perfectly-timed solo attack, surging up Col du Granier and descending down to the finish line to take stage seven.
Squiban’s feat is all the more remarkable, given her team, UAE Team ADQ, only have three riders left in the race, having had four withdrawals. After her victory, Squiban spoke to reporters, describing the stage as “incredible” and that she was “proud of what we did today”.
After Annemiek van Vleuten, Charlotte Kool and Lorena Wiebes, Squiban becomes the fourth rider to win two consecutive Tour de France Femmes stages after her success on stage six which she succeeded on a 32km breakaway through the forest climbs of the Livradois-Forez national park to Ambert.
