Stage races rarely come down to single seconds in overall placings: Sure, plenty of stages will finish with a sprint, but to have a six-day Tour won by a single second? That’s unheard of, but it’s exactly how Elisa Longo-Borgini (Trek-Segafredo) took the win at this year’s Women’s Tour in Great Britain on Saturday. Here’s the TL;DR of the Women’s Tour, and why it has us so excited for this year’s Tour de France Femmes, the long-overdue stage race that will take place alongside of the the Tour de France for eight stages from July 24 to July 31.

In the Women’s Tour, Longo-Borgini headed into the final stage in Oxfordshire with Australian Grace Brown (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope) leading in the overall standings, though the two were matched on time at 15:40:56.

Long-Borgini had taken the win on Stage 5 to move her into the second place spot, but Brown's time gap heading into that stage allowed her to maintain the lead. "There was a bit of doubt because I knew that if I wanted to stay ahead in time then I needed to come second on Elisa’s wheel with no gap, but then it worked out that if I came third we were equal,” Brown said of the stage 5 results that put them at the same time marker for the overall heading into the final stage. "I didn’t know how it worked in terms of countback, but I retained the jersey."

The final stage covered 143 kilometers. For spectators, it was a thrilling day: Brown took the first intermediate sprint, netting her three bonus seconds in the race. But then, in the final kilometer of racing, Longo-Borgini was able to sprint her way into a third place finish behind Lorena Wiebes (Team DSM) and Clara Coppini (FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope). Brown rolled in for 12th but still in the lead group. While their finishing times were exactly the same in that stage, the third place finish netted Longo-Borgini a bonus of four seconds. And that gave her the overall win by a single second.

"Really, in the end it was just perfect teamwork. I am really thankful to all my teammates and staff here working for me,” Longo Borgini said post-race in an interview with Road.cc. "Trek-Segafredo again showed how much teamwork is worth in cycling."

The Canyon/SRAM Racing Team took the team classification, while Wiebes scored the points jersey, Elise Chabbey took the climber’s jersey and Maike Van Der Duin rode away with the sprinter’s jersey. It’s also worth noting that Copponi was second in the sprint classification and third in the points classification.

In the women’s peloton, there are a dozen contenders who could easily take the overall win in the Tour de France Femmes, so plan to spend the end of July glued to the couch watching the racing action.

"It’s really nice to finish the tour with the GC podium and the [ŠKODA] mountain jersey," Chabbey said in the race’s press release. "The whole team was committed and so motivated every day to achieve the best. When the atmosphere is like that it’s easy to give our best. Our teamwork and spirit were rewarded with the best team classification. We also know where we can improve, especially in the lead out, but we take a lot of positives from this tour!”

The race itself came under fire after Stage 1, when a high-speed crash in the final corner on stage 1 took out top race contender Wiebes. While she fought her way back into the standings, fans wondered why the metal barricades had been arranged the way that they were. (You can watch the crash on Twitter here.) Thankfully, Wiebes wasn’t badly injured and was able to keep racing, but this race and several others in recent weeks have called attention to the need for safer courses, particularly around the finish lines and in bunch sprint situations.