Painful: Demi Vollering cheers too early at the finish line Brabantse Pijl | Cycling

sport">The six Vollering, Coljé, Lowden, Thomas, Winder and Balsamo opened the final. Nice people: the peloton had that in the moth too and so the leading group did not get much space. But since top favorites Van Vleuten and Van den Broek – Blaak had someone with them in the right breakaway, it turned out not to be an easy job to get the breakaway back. While the six at the front continued to work together exemplarily, the peloton never got the chase fully streamlined.

sport">With ten kilometers to go, the lead was still one minute and it seemed as if the winner was in the front. The forcing was still carried out on Moskesstraat, but while the cooperation did not go wrong at the front, the peloton too often made individual attempts, with Van Vleuten as a controlling watchdog in the service of teammate Leah Thomas. The peloton would not return.

sport">De finish:

sport">Winder was amazed at the outcome. “I saw Demi cheering and thought I had finished second,” said the American.

sport">Vollering, 24 years old and from Berkel en Rodenrijs, is in her first season for SD Worx, the successor to the successful Boels-Dolmans team. This year she was already sixth in the Strade Bianche and fifth in the Tour of Flanders.

sport">She was stunned to conclude in Overijse in Belgium that her first victory for the team had just not happened. “It is very disappointing. I really thought I had won. Sometimes it is ‘close’, but when I think back I really had the feeling that I was in front of it ”, she said afterwards in front of the camera of Eurosport.

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