Demi Vollaring (Team SD Works) was speechless in the finish area of Landernaud after taking one of the biggest wins of her career at La Course by Le Tour de France. She had just won the final edition of La Course by Le Tour de France, defeating superstar Marianne Vos (Team Jumbo-Visma) and other world-class riders in an eight-man group sprint. This one-day race will be converted to an eight-day stage race starting in 2022 and will start on the final day of the men's Tour de France. This was the second big classic win of the 2021 season for Voerling, who defeated Annemiek Van Hulten (Movistar Team) and others in a group sprint victory in Liège-Bastogne-Liège. In both cases, the support of world champion Anna van der Breggen was crucial to Vollering's success. I knew if I wanted to win here, I had to race hard," van der Breggen said. I knew if I wanted to win here, I needed to race hard. We hoped it would be a hard race, and if it wasn't, we were going to make it hard ourselves. It was pretty hard from the beginning. Niamh (Fischer-Black) did a really good job. She was in the breakaway group the whole time and Chantal (van den Broeck-Braak) was at the front of the peloton the whole race. Nicolas (Noshková) was active in the early stages and Anna did a really great job at the finish. It was another really good team effort and it was great to finish it," Vollering said at the finish. The team was alert from the start, with Van den Broeck-Blaak and Roxan Fournier joining the early attack. However, none of the riders were able to leave the peloton. Nikola Noskova was tasked with bringing back a breakaway that did not suit the team until one rider finally broke away from the peloton. The trio, led by 2017 World Champion Vandenbrouck-Blaak, stayed near the front of the peloton to control the race. On the first of four Côte de la Fosse-aux-Loup climbs set up by Trek-Segafredo's Lucinda Brand, Fischer-Blake joined the 12-man lead group. On the second climb of the Fosse-aux-Loups, Van der Breggen single-handedly closed the 30-second gap to just a few meters, and Fischer-Bleck quickly accelerated to keep the pressure on. When the peloton made contact with the lead group, Fischer-Bleck continued to lead, and as the climb flattened out, Vollering attacked first. Lizzie Deignan (Trek-Segafredo), Cecily Uttrup-Ludwig (FDJ Nouvelle Aquitaine Futuroscope), and Rian Lippert (Team DSM) soon followed this attack, and Volering was unable to break away from the peloton, which shrank to a 28-man group. He was unable to do so. Fischer-Black again lapped at the front to join the 12-man group started by Ruth Winder (Trek-Segafredo). With most of the big teams in the peloton, there was no urgency to chase in the peloton, and the group was large enough that Fischer-Black did not have to do much work, which was ideal. The young New Zealander effortlessly chased down an attack by Mikayla Harvey (Canyon-SRAM) on the final climb of the Fos au Roux. The lead group was caught as Team Jumbo-Visma worked for Vos, and as the race approached the final climb of the Fos au Loup, Van der Breggen, as the team's strongest rider, followed the attacking Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Canyon-SRAM). Vollering was right behind her, but as the climb flattened out, she moved back to the front, and Van der Breggen served Vollering, blocking Uttrup-Ludwig's final move. On the finish straight, Vollering steered the boss and Van der Breggen accelerated from the back of the pack 450 meters to the line. As Vos caught up to the world champion, Vollering sprinted out of Vos' slipstream and pulled ahead in the last 25 meters to win.