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Tour de France Femmes Etape 4/ Stage 4 preview!

 If you have never watched women cycling before, the last 60 km of the Tour de France Femmes stage 4  will be the best thing you would have ever watched on TV. Exciting, borderline extreme, it will be action packed! Tour de France Femmes 2022 stage 4 preview 5 categorized and most importantly 4 sectors of white roads is one menu for the peloton. It is often said that the Tour cannot be won on these stages but it can lost. Exceptionally, the Tour de France can be won here. Chalk covered road with steep climbs are awaiting the girls. Many has called it the Stade Bianche in France but to be fair this is looks more like a cyclo-cross race! The girls will deal with 4 gravel sectors and 5 categorised climbs   As the girls hit the intermediate sprint at the 60km mark, chaos will ensue.  The peloton will fight for position to enter the first of the gravel road: a 2.3km sector which ends with 1.1 km climb at 8.9%. The second sector follows just after the descent: Chemin Blanc des Hautes-Forets