Demi Vollering she threw herself to the ground exhausted and, even knowing it, she wanted to confirm, asking the assistants, if she had won the Tour. A few meters away, next to the Verdun de Pau square, where the French round always leaves or arrives, regardless of the gender of the participants, Lotte Kopecky, her teammate, green jersey and leader of the race to Tourmalet, caressed her dog, who had traveled from Belgium with her parents. The two runners embraced. With nerves the bike fell to the ground full ring. They had managed to be the first two of the Tour Femmes, finished after a week of sports combat. As if that weren’t enough, her Swiss partner at SD Worx, Marlen Reusser, had won the final time trial. Total happiness in the best women’s cycling team in the world.
At the other end of the square, Annemiek van Vleuten, 40 years of cycling glory, hadn’t had a day, tired of the battle on the Tourmalet. The whole team of Movistar he had followed her on TV from outside the bus. But her strength and vibrations had not been enough to propel her to the podium, which she lost like a chocolate, before Hills and also with the polish Katarzyna Nieviadoma. Van Vleuten says goodbye to cycling at the end of the year, perhaps to settle in Cantabria where he spends a good part of the year.
maximum happiness
full ring, already on the podium, exposed his maximum happiness. “To win the Tour it is not enough to work hard, you have to believe in it. There are so many emotions.” It was not for less since in 2023, at the age of 26, she has become the new star of women’s cycling, the total runner, the one who won the Strade Bianche, the Tour of Flanders, the Amstel Gold Race, the Walloon Arrow in spring and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, second in the Vuelta and now first in the Tour Women.
Elisabeth BorneFrench Prime Minister, happy to support women’s sports and dressed in a yellow jacket, gave Vollering the vase that the winners of the Tour have received for decades, the one Pedro Delgado has in Segovia or the five from the collection of Miguel Indurain in Pamplona. AND full ring He thanked in English the support of the French, who respect the culture of the Tour to stratospheric limits, regardless of whether they are men or women who move on a bike.
????She took yellow on the Queen stage, and defended her jersey with success today, here is your #TDFF2023 winner!
????She took the @MaillotjauneLCL on the queen stage, and defended her jersey brilliantly today, here is your winner of the #TDFF2023 !
???????? @demivollering… pic.twitter.com/pg9EHcWdIv
— The Tour de France Women with Zwift (@LeTourFemmes) July 30, 2023
I could not participate in the party Van Vleutenrespected to the maximum by the Spanish group Movistar, which in December will be left without its reference, without a star signing in sight “because there is no one who can replace it” and because full ring is tied up by SD, they will try to stand out as a block, the one that has led them to win two stages in this Tour, with the German Liane Lippert and the Danish Emma Jorgenssen, although without Spaniards in sight, mavi garciawho did not participate sick in the last stage, and Ane Santestebanat the end of the eighth overall, run in foreign structures.
They have come to #TDFF2023 from Pamplona with their parents because when they grow up they both want to run the tour Their names are Ñora and Haizea pic.twitter.com/QYHy2jgOq2
— Sergi López-Egea (@sergi_lopezegea) July 30, 2023
Van Vleuten, winner of the 2022 Tour, has rewarded Movistar this season with victories in the Vuelta and the Giro. And in the Vuelta the enmity between Van Vlueten and Vollering began, perhaps the product of a misunderstanding. full ring he had stopped to urinate. Women cyclists have it more complicated than men and lose more time. Right at that moment, in Cantabria, when Vollering was in the ditch, Van Vleuten attacked to start winning the Vuelta. Vollering felt betrayed, but Van Vleuten He explained that he had chosen the ‘bathroom’ in the wrong place because that was where she had prepared the attack; on a slope, the place she had chosen for him oscar, her Cantabrian boyfriend. Everything was forgotten about the Tour podium.
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