Women's Tour de France 2023: Which Smart Trainers do they use?

The last stage of the 2023 Women’s Tour de France wrapped up with plenty of sports tech and other tidbits to check out. In the above video I walk through all the team bus/technical areas to see what’s floating around, plus follow some riders out to the starting line to show how it all works. Meanwhile, down below I’ve got the full inventory of smart trainers from the team this year, including a surprise or two.

First though, this was one of the coolest Tour de France time trial stages for fans, at least in terms of fan access. For example, last year’s time trial on the men’s side in Copenhagen, the course/route was unquestionably better – however, the teams were all basically secured in a fan no-go zone. Thus, while you could see the riders on the course, you couldn’t get/see anywhere near them for the hours before they raced (individually). Here, not only was the area accessible – it was wide open with no media credentials required (save a handful of areas near the actual start line – and even that could have been accessed simply from the opposite side of where I stood).

Meanwhile, on the smart trainer front, this was actually not the first stage the ladies used the trainers. The day prior for the rather short Tourmelet stage, virtually all the teams did a brief warm-up on the trainers. It’s one of the view times you get to see an entire team on smart trainers at once, save for the team time trials (which have become more rare in recent years). Else, the riders are mostly on individually, as their start times are dictated by their current placement within the overall race (with first place going last).

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