It has been a super tough day. I felt as if I was riding a high-speed train. We went full gas despite the strong wind because there were many favorites at the front looking forward to gain some time on those who have missed the split. I tried to help my teammates make the front group, yet they got dropped because this is how echelons work: you lose half a meter and you...
The strong group at the front was formed pretty quickly. We had 6 out of the 19 riders at the front, so the move was ideal for us. We knew that there were going to be echelons all day long, so we kept pushing for this one to go up the road. Towards the final, we knew we had to play our strength in numbers. Mischa [Bredewold] and Demi [Vollering] attacked, and I went with [Kristen]...
It was a tough day. Everybody at the front that it was going to be windy and that echelons will be formed. It was really good to have Riejanne [Markus] and Sophie [von Berswordt] with me at the front, to ride along with me and help keeping the same group all the way to the final. We fell short of getting the stage win because the attack from [Kristen] Faulkner was just too strong....
We came here hunting for stages, and we have scored two already. It’s still early in La Vuelta Femenina and we are already proud of what we have achieved so far. We all fought for position ahead of La Yunta (km 18,5), and as soon as we got out of the town SD Worx accelerated. Luckily, we were in good position and could stay and cooperate with the group. At some point the...
131 riders took the start in the 4th stage of La Vuelta Femenina 24 by Carrefour.es, which covered 142,3 kilometres between Molina de Aragón and Zaragoza, at 14:01. There were three DNSs: Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek), Justine Ghekeire (AG Insurance-Soudal) and Selene Colombi (Bepink-Bongioanni). The crosswinds expected all over the stage were ideal to create echelons. Attacks...
It really has been like an ITT! It’s been spectacular to see so many people out on the roadside, cheering for us, crying my name out loud… I got goosebumps. This is our home race and it makes me emotional to see how everyone lives the event along with us. When I found myself alone at the front, with no one bridging back from the bunch, I tried to just keep pushing...
It has been a very hard day for me. It was not really my day, as I had a lot of pain all over my body. I did my best in order to defend this Mountains jersey, but it was not the easiest day for me mentally, for sure. We rode fast up the categorised climb, and the bunch was reduced down to 40 riders. Afterwards, everything came back together because of the headwind. From then...
It was a very hard day, from the start. I was already tired after 30 kilometres, and struggling with back pain. I suffered a lot today. The lone breakaway rider had a very big gap, so we pulled a bit at the front to bring her back and stopped working when she was close enough in order to let other teams interested on a mass sprint do the chasing. I kept the Red jersey because...
Of course, I’m very happy and satisfied. We already worked hard and tried hard yesterday, and then we had some bad luck in the final. Today we went all in again. All the girls worked really hard for this, so of course it’s really nice to be able to finish it off. I’m very happy with this win. The roads were wet at the beginning, and it was very slippery. There...
140 riders took the start in the 3rd stage of La Vuelta Femenina 24 by Carrefour.es, which covered 130,2 kilometres between Llucena and Teruel, at 13:43. There were four DNSs: Anna Henderson (Visma | Lease a Bike), Marta Cavalli (FDJ-SUEZ), Clara Emond (EF Education-Cannondale) and Sabrina Stultiens (VolkerWessels). Emma Norsgaard (Movistar Team) also withdrew from the race...