It looked like a Classic on paper, and it made for a classic stage that fans and riders will hardly ever forget.
The Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift headed into the French Riviera with a course punctuated in its final 20 kilometres by two climbs and a proper wall, as steep as 13% in its 500 metres.
Well set up by her FDJ United-Suez teammates, Demi Vollering used it as a springboard to unleash a devastating acceleration, crack Elisa Longo Borghini (UAE Team L'Imad) and the owner of the Yellow Jersey, Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney (Canyon//SRAM), and fly away to the finish in Nice’s Promenade des Anglais, where the Dutch rider put the stage win in her bag and unseated the Polish rider from the overall lead.
🚴♀️💨 Full gas along the Promenade des Anglais, chasing victory and yellow! 💛
— Le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) August 8, 2026
⏪ Relive the final kilometre of Stage 8.
🚀 Un contre-la-montre sur la Promenade des Anglais pour aller chercher la victoire et le Maillot Jaune ! 💛
⏪ Revivez le dernier kilomètre de la 8e étape.… pic.twitter.com/IK1c2SdI00
Vollering is thus in the Yellow Jersey with 8” on Niewiadoma-Phinney and 1’12” on Marlen Reusser (Movistar Team) with just one stage to go.
All is set for an exciting finale this Sunday in Nice, with a short and breathtaking course featuring four climbs up the Col d’Èze to settle this 2026 Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift.