Vollering wins the Tour de France Women, Van Vleuten retires

Dutchwoman Demi Vollering won the women's Tour de France for the first time in her career, wearing the yellow jersey on Saturday in the Tourmalet stage and keeping it through the final stage, a 22-kilometer time trial won by Swiss Marlen Reusser in Pau. Vollering, 26, of the SD Worx team, succeeds her compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten, who announced her retirement at the end of the season. In the general classification, Vollering preceded Belgian Lotte Kopecky and Polish Katarzyna Niewiadoma, tied for second. With the success at the Tour, the Dutchwoman, world number one, has now won three times, having already achieved a hat-trick in the Ardennes classics.