After a dominant race by her SD Worx team, Demi Vollering polished it off by taking the final stage victory and the overall general classification. She had no real rivals on the final climb to Lagunas de Neila and won on its slopes for the second year in a row. She rode the final 7km …
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Lorena Wiebes has won the third stage of the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas to go with her win on the opening stage. Wiebes was the quickest in a chase for the finish line which saw the bunch only catch the break in the final metres. Most of the peloton arrived too late, but with a …
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Demi Vollering has won the second stage of the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas. The Dutch cyclist won the sprint in Lerma after the stage was characterised by echelons. Lorena Wiebes crossed the line first, but the winner of Stage One was relegated to third place due to a manoeuvre during the sprint. Chloe Dygert secured …
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Vuelta a Burgos Feminas sprung up from a national-level race in 2019 to 2.1 level. The first edition was won by Norwegian Stine Borgli with a bit of a different parcours to the race it has now become. There was no major summit finish…
Demi Vollering didn’t manage to win the Tour of the Basque Country. That honour fell to her SD Worx teammate, Marlen Reusser, who clinched a double victory in the final stage of the Women’s WorldTour race by breaking away from an elite group in the closing stages. Vollering was part of that group, fended off …
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Demi Vollering launched into the race lead on the opening stage of the 2023 Itzulia Women. The Dutch star rode away on the final Urkaregi climb and descended strongly in the wet to arrive solo at the finish line in Markina-Xemein. For Vollering, it’s the 4th stage win in a row in the Basque Country …
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The end of the race in Spain saw the first major tour of the season go to Annemiek van Vleuten. It would be fair to say she wasn’t the strongest rider but she by virtue of making the fewest mistakes, she was able to capitalise. We saw a new hope in Gaia Realini begin to …
What did we learn about the GC riders at the Vuelta Femenina? Read More »
Annemiek van Vleuten won her 4th major tour in a row with victory at this year’s Vuelta Femenina, although it was a close-run thing as her advantage earned yesterday was nearly overtaken by the efforts of Demi Vollering. Gaia Realini gamefully hung on to claim 2nd on the stage and boost herself up to 3rd …
Gaia Realini pipped Annemiek van Vleuten on the line after a hard-fought day that saw the experienced head of Van Vleuten steal a march on her rival Demi Vollering in the general classification fight. The biggest DNS of note today was Chloe Dygert, whose team pulled her from the running after 5 full-on stages to …
Gaia Realini takes first WWT win and Van Vleuten steals the red jersey away from SD Worx Read More »
Demi Vollering was not happy after today’s Stage 6 of the Vuelta Femenina. Her team took a natural break and suffered a mechanical in that process, in the meantime Movistar geared up an attack in a crosswind section that they didn’t hold off. That put SD Worx on the back foot after just 35km of …
Demi Vollering’s post-Vuelta Femenina Stage 6 interview in English Read More »