Tour de France Femmes: Swiss rider Reusser wins stage 4

The 30-year-old put in the decisive attack 23 kilometres before the finish and won by 1:24 minutes ahead of the Frenchwoman Évita Muzic.

Crashes overshadow Tour de France Femmes

After several serious crashes on the previous days, there were more accidents. Spanish champion Margarita Victoria Garcia Canellas was hit on the rear wheel by her team's car around 13 kilometres before the finish and crashed heavily.

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Although the 38-year-old was able to finish the stage with abrasions, she dropped from sixth to eleventh place in the overall standings. At the Tour de France Femmes, Germany's track cycling team world champion Laura Süßemilch, among others, broke two vertebrae in a serious mass crash.

Vos stays in the yellow jersey

Dutch rider Marianne Vos came out on top in the sprint of the peloton after 127 kilometres from Troyes to Bar-sur-Aube and finished fifth. The three-time road world champion and 2012 Olympic champion thus successfully defended the overall leader's yellow jersey.

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Vos leads by 16 seconds ahead of Italy's Silvia Persico and Poland's Katarzyna Niewiadoma. German champion Liane Lippert finished twelfth on the day and is 13th overall, 2:55 minutes behind Vos.

The fifth stage on Thursday leads over a largely flat 176 kilometres from Bar-le-Duc to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges.

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