The debate around Demi Vollering is far from finished in the peloton. After the fall of the Dutchman, the reactions were linked. This time, it was the director of La Visma-Lease A Bike who challenges the 2023 champion of the Tour.
The story is far from over. The fall of half a vollerum this Monday during the 3rd stage had made a good number of people react. From runners to team directors, the Dutch has received support from her camp. If it received the green light to start the 4th stage this Tuesday, the current 6th in the 2025 edition of the Tour de France remains marked by its fall.
The director of the FDJ-Suez training had defended and mentioned “a lack of respect for the peloton” and “avoidable risk taking”. Words that were quick to make react. Marianne Vos, at the head of the general, had explained that this race was not a lack of respect in a sport where the runners are fighting for a position. This Wednesday, we learn that the director of Visma-Lease A Bike also reacted. More categorically.
“What he says is completely ridiculous”
Between the FDJ-Suez and Visma-Lease A Bike training, the tension rises day after day. Not a moment without a reaction being observed behind the scenes of the Tour de France women 2025. As evokes the Dutch media TelegraafJos Van Emden, the sports director of the training, made sharp remarks against his French counterpart. Van Emden did not go through four paths to say what he thought about the situation and Stéphen Delcourt on the front line.
“I have no respect for this kind of comments. Let’s be clear: what he says is completely ridiculous. He seems to want a peloton of eight runners with half, in a golden cage. Come on, it’s sport, right? Nothing happened that should not have (…) I will stop there, but it must be said, Demi really believes in a golden cage. Half Vollering should be raised after hearing these words. If the two teams respond to each other by interposed media, it is for the moment the Visma-Lease a Bike which leads this tour with Marianne Vos (1ère) and Pauline Ferrand-Prévôt (4th).
Their director has also ended his speaking by contradicting Delcourt. “Admittedly, this is the best runner, but that does not mean that everyone has to fade in front of her. And Delcourt who says that human lives are endangered, it is simply false. It is not reality. If you think that, you may have to get into another sport. ”
