Saturday September 28, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Demi Vollering was strong, very strong in the World Championship road race for elite women, but also raised quite a few eyebrows with her racing behavior. How does Vollering actually look back on her competition? “You can always say afterwards: if only we had done it this way and that,” she said afterwards Sporza.
A numb Vollering is nevertheless proud of her Dutch teammates. “It’s a bit difficult to analyze now. It’s so cold and I don’t really know what to think and feel right now. One thing is certain: we fought all day. In the end, the final was not difficult enough to really get away.”
Vollering tried it, countless times in fact, but proved unable to drive away alone. “It was a shame that I couldn’t really do anything on the last climb (referring to the Witikonerstrasse, ed.). We had Marianne (Vos, ed.) and Riejanne (Markus, ed.) at the front. So it wasn’t up to me.”
“That was a shame, because the pace was a bit too slow and it was too easy on the climb,” said Vollering, who placed some seemingly inimitable accelerations in the final. “But afterwards it is a nice place to live. You can always say: if only we had done it this way and that. That’s always difficult to say.”
“Maybe I should have started it earlier,” she also said in the mixed zone. “Of course I have to shoot my own arrows somewhere and I may have done that too late. But it is always easy to say something after the race.”
