Pauline Ferrand-Prévot wins the 2025 Women's Tour de France

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The 33-year-old runner, a multiple world champion and Olympic medalist last year in Paris, became this Sunday, August 3, the first Frenchwoman to add her name to the event's list of winners since its relaunch in 2022.

Pauline Ferrand-Prévot at the finish line of the final stage of the Tour de France, this Sunday, August 3, 2025. (Julien de Rosa/AFP)

It all started with a promise. At the end of July 2024, at the top of the hill of Elancourt (Yvelines), Pauline Ferrand-Prévot snatched the only title missing from her long mountain biker's list of achievements: that of Olympic champion . Finally golden, the Frenchwoman could have hung up her boots, enjoyed herself, and taken a breather after years of chasing podiums. But barely had she had the gold medal around her neck when she was already turning her attention to a new goal: to return to the road, where she hadn't raced for five seasons, to win the Tour de France. Growing up in a family of cyclists in Reims (her parents ran a bike shop), she promised herself she would do everything she could to win the race she watched on television as a child within three years. It only took one.

This Sunday, August 3, the long-unattainable dream – from 1993 until 2022, female riders were deprived of the Tour de France – became reality: at the age of 33, Pauline Ferrand-Prévot won the Tour de France in Châtel (Haute-Savoie). "I remember that I wanted to be a boy

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