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Lauren Dickson spent stage 4 riding for Juliette Berthet, closing a 15-second gap to the leaders on Col de Tourniol so her team-mate could defend the overall. Then she attacked with 3km left and swept past both leaders herself, converting a day of domestique work into her first professional win.
Dickson's job on the final stage was to bring back Niamh Fisher-Black's move on the climbs, not to chase a result of her own. She did it, then kept going: after the summit of Col des Limouches she attacked solo and beat the very leaders she'd just helped neutralize. Berthet took the overall, but the stage — and Dickson's maiden win — came from the rider who wasn't supposed to be racing for herself that day.
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