PONFERRADA / ASTORGA – soigneur Ruud Zijlmans cycled Thursday during reconnaissance two laps along with the national women’s team.
“What was it hard! Something to be really hard for me “, said the former top amateur on returning to the hotel from the Dutch selection know. “I told Ellen van Dijk: should there might be some frustration. And hup she retired for a while. “Moments later, Marianne Vos threw the pace even further up. “I know enough,” says Zijlmans. “Fox is back in order.”
Drama
The defending champion from Brabant Gulls can now only confirm that after the drama of Sunday (when she could not follow her teammates in the team time trial), she again completely believes in its profit opportunities in the road race on Saturday. “Sunday I take some very strong baled. And – I have to admit – there were also doubts about to go on with the road race. But as I feel now, I’m just fit again “
She does not otherwise be able to conclude then:.” That it was in the section with the heading bad day. What is perhaps not everyone knows that there are more days under that cuppa falling in my career. And now I know also that it can then be different. “Quickly
Doubts
Fox says play. No game “If you really have doubts, the competition that quickly.” When a hopeful surprise the off-day will be according to her nor received during the TTT al. “The outside world thinks I’m hard to beat. The girls in the peloton know better. Who see perfectly well that there are days that I’m not just here to win. “
Setback for her remains the fact that Anna van der Breggen and Annemiek van Vleuten because of the injuries they sustained in a fall Saturday is not in the same team time trial. Thalita de Jong is one of the two replacement. “Man, it was so hard during those two reconnaissance laps, I dropped out after the first one and went at my own pace,” also outlined it the eagerness with which Vos and Van Dijk have worked.
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