Grant Thornton-Krush Bikes-Tunap Sports shows fighting spirit in the gruelling final stage Healthy Aging Tour

The first multi-day season of the season is over for Grant Thornton-Krush Bikes-Tunap Sports. With no fewer than two top ten rankings, the team can look back on the Healthy Aging Tour with a good feeling. The teamwork shown gives even more cause for joy and pride.

โ€œIt was a tough day todayโ€, Quinty Ton looks back briefly on the epic final stage. โ€œIn any case, I know again what suffering is. I will never say again that I am cold. I was shivering for half an hour after the finishโ€ฆ โ€

Ton could not suppress a bit of disappointment after the finish. A crash and two bicycle changes prevented a good result. โ€œThat crash happened just when things got faster. I was really comfortable in it and there was only a small platoon left. I saw that a lot of riders had already finished and I still felt quite good. I had hoped to be able to finish in this group, but just then I crashed. โ€

Ton had to continue on her way badly, but her morals were not broken. โ€œI had to change bikes, then I could jump out of a group and ride to another group. Ultimately, this was the last group to finish the race. It is a shame about that fall, but I am proud that I persisted despite the bad luck. โ€

“Everyone suffered very hard”

The very tough 2.1-day event in the north of the Netherlands was the first game of the season for the team. Ton praises the development and fighting spirit of her teammates. โ€œEveryone suffered very hard. We have made good use of each other’s strengths. That means that there was not a very nice result for everyone, but that is what you need to be able to perform as a team. I think we can be proud of how we have shown ourselves! โ€โ€œDuring the match we also became a lot closer as a team. We have started to communicate even better. Daniek was immediately behind a crash today, so we started waiting for her because she was very high in the rankings. That went very smoothly. It was immediately: I wait, I wait and we drive back. That’s what you want to see and it happened today. It is great that we handled it that way. โ€ 

For Ton, her next match soon follows.ย The GP Oetingen (1.2) is on the calendar for Sunday 14 March.ย But first it is time to recover after a very tough race: “I’m already looking forward to sleep tonight, haha!”

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