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Eight weeks after breaking her collarbone at Tour de Suisse, Lauren Dickson returned at Tour of Britain Women and took the Queen of the Mountains jersey on her FDJ United-Suez debut — not by surviving the race, but by winning both classified climbs on stage 3.
Dickson topped Moel Fodair and Nebo back-to-back on stage 3, moving to 27 points in the QOM classification — a calculated sweep, not an opportunistic grab. She also finished the stage with the leaders on the Great Orme, confirming her climbing legs are intact. This is the same rider who rode the Giro d'Italia Women in service of Demi Vollering and still placed 11th overall in her first Grand Tour. The QOM jersey is a statement about where her form is, not where it was before the crash.
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