The Spaniard Mavi Garcia wins the 2nd stage thanks to a resistance number, the Mauritian Kim Le Court takes the yellow jersey

On a 100% Finistère route, Liv Alula Jayco signed a good solo victory in Quimper on Sunday.

The surprise from Spain. At 41, Mavi Garcia had a prestigious success on the 2nd stage of the Tour de France Women, Sunday, July 27, resistant to the favorites after trying the solo blow 10 kilometers from Quimper. For three seconds, the Spanish of Liv Alula Jayco has ahead of the Dutch Lorena Wiebes (SD World-Protime) and the Mauritian Kim Le Court (Ag Insurance-Soudal) on the line).

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The latter nevertheless recovers the yellow jersey to Dutch Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease A Bike, 2nd at the same time), thanks to the bonuses and the favor of better places in cumulative. The winner in Plumelec the day before was finished fifth this Sunday, when her teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prévot (3rd to 6 “) takes eighth place in the stage.

And this, despite a vain attack of the Frenchwoman, attempted in the company of the Polish title holder Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-Sram, 4th to 10 “), 21 kilometers from the finish. The two cadors have not managed to take over the head quartet on this race movement.

Parts in scouts, the Swiss polka dot jersey Elise Chabbey (FDJ-Suez) and Silke Smulders (Liv Alula Jayco) disputed the points during the stage, without the mountain tunic changing shoulders on arrival. They were then joined in the final by the French and local, Maeva Squiban (UAE Team Asq), elected combative, as well as Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek), to finally demo.

Like Marlen Reusser, sick and forced to abandon the day before, several headliners of this Tour were in difficulty on the 100% Finistère's journey of the day. When Dutch sprinters Charlotte Kool (Picnic Postnl) was not part of Brest, the American Olympic champion Kristen Faulkner (EF Education-Oatly) fell.

With her world champion jersey, the Belgian Lotte Kopecky (SD World-Protime) was distant at the pedal in the final, like the Italian Elisa Longo Borghini (Uae Team Asq). After conceding more than a minute on the line on Saturday, she will have to give up her ambitions to the general to promote her teammate Anna van der Breggen (7th to 15 “), who points just behind the big favorite half vollering (FDJ-Suez, 5th to 13”) in the ranking.

Like Maeva Squiban, the Bretonnes looked good in the image of Aude Biannic (Movistar), out of the peloton at the start of the stage with the German Franziska Koch (Picnic Postnl) before the two were taken up. While Cédrine Kerbaol (EF Education-Oatly, 14th at 27 “) did not concedes too much time and even was at the head of the peloton in the Côte de Locronan, on his land.