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Who Do We Have Here? TDU24-7
With another 77 kilometers to race, 10 women escape the clutches of the peloton. As they built up a 21 second advantage, Marie Le Net (FDJ-Suez) dropped back along the line checking out who had managed to join in the effort. She found Rachel Barbieri (Picnic-PostNL) at the rear. The Italian was led in turn by Greta Marturano (UAE Team ADQ), Babette van der Wolf (EF Education-Oatley), Kristyna Burlova (Ceratizit) and Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Health) amongst some others. The group was hoping to get a head start for the two trips up Willunga Hill that awaits them in the last twenty kilometers of the stage. Footnote, it didn't work.