Cycling - La Course by Le Tour de France cycling race - The 67.5-km Stage 1 from Briancon to Izoard, France - July 20, 2017 - Orica-Scott rider Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands wins the stage. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
COL D'IZOARD, France (Reuters) - Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands attacked four kilometres (2.5 miles) from the finish on Thursday to win the first stage of La Course by Le Tour, the women's race run by Tour de France organisers ASO.
A few hours before the Tour's 18th stage finishes at the top of the famed Izoard climb, Van Vleuten beat Britain's Lizzie Deignan by 43 seconds.
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