Willunga > Willunga 137km

The race kicks off in Willunga, but crucially avoiding Willunga Hill. Instead, we have a stage which should end in a sprint, but you can never be 100% sure of how things will play out in a women’s race. Sometimes tactics can be hard to work out, take last year for example. FDJ had the huge favourite in Ally Wollaston, but they tried to play poker with the rest of the peloton in the hope other teams would help to chase, and they lost. If you have the big favourite, you have to do the vast majority of the work, simple as that. Okay, time to look at the stage.