Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) : “I’m honoured that they want me to wear La Roja”

May 4 ^th 2025 - 14:59 [GMT + 2]

“I’m super happy, because we really wanted this win. It’s always super close in this kind of team time trial. It’s so fast and so short, that everything needs to go well. We are just really happy that we could deliver after all the work all the team put on this day. There’s so many people involved in this special win. My focus was mainly on this TTT, I really wanted to do well here, but we have way more goals with the team in this race. I think there are some stages where a lot of different things can happen - maybe echelons, and hopefully a lot of action. We also won the TTT last year, but I had a bad crash and was forced to leave La Vuelta, so I don’t hold the best memories. But I love TTT’s, especially with this team.”

“I know it is Mother’s Day in Spain, but in the Netherlands it is next week! I’ll be home for Mother’s Day in the Netherlands, so I have two Mother’s Day this year. The team director Jeroen (Blijlevens) told me this morning that, if I could, I was going to be the one to pass the finish line first. I see it as an honour because this particular leader jersey is not my jersey, but a team’s jersey. I’m honoured that they want me to wear it.”