Anna van der Breggen (SD Worx’s DS): “A nice situation for us”

May 5 th 2023 - 16:27 [GMT + 2]

We are both happy and disappointed at the same time. Of course, we are really happy because Demi [Vollering] won the stage and is the new GC leader, and also Marlen [Reusser] was good. But we are not happy about Niamh [Fisher-Black], because she crashed uphill and is probably losing the general because of this.

We didn’t expect such a big selection in Navafria, but it was good for us because we had our three leaders at the head of the race. It was a nice situation for us until Niamh got dropped to the second group. It’s good that the riders made a real race already on that long climb.

It’s always difficult to defend a GC lead, but we have some experienced riders to handle the task and some young ones who can learn a lot from having this responsibility. I think the team is pretty used to do this. It will be hard, but Marlen and Demi are feeling good and we will try to keep the Red jersey in our team.

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