The day after a heavy fall which could have ended his hopes of final victory on the Tour de France women, Demi Vollering said that the hours spent on the bicycle this Tuesday during the 4th stage have everything to reassure it.
Half Vollering hunted the doubts. This Monday, in the final of the 3rd stage of the Tour de France women, the leader of the FDJ-Suez team was the victim of a heavy fall and painfully finished the route with the help of two teammates. After spending exams a few minutes after the stage, the result of which was confirmed this Tuesday morning, the Dutchman was able to start for the 130.7 kilometers of the 4th stage, won in the sprint in the streets of Poitiers by his compatriot Lorena Wiebes. A race that the native of Pijnacker admitted to having started by having “terribly pain in the neck” before the situation improves.
“I had trouble holding my right head,” she added in comments collected by daily life ” The team. But during the stage, I got there, it went well on the bicycle and I did not have a headache, so that’s good news. “A step that half a vollering started with” a little apprehension “, which” were (her) all the time “. Nevertheless, the positive point is that the runner having won the Tour de France women in 2023 “did not feel any knee and back pain” during this stage.
Vollering: “My team did an excellent job”
In a final marked by a massive sprint, the peloton gained nervousness over the kilometers and a half Vollering admitted that “it was still a little chaotic” to the point of little escaping a new fall while it was present at the head of the peloton with its teammates. “It was going well until a runner really goes to the side, I first tried to stop, then I managed to pass,” she summed up. Fortunately, I did not fall again. I think the apprehension has dissipated a little now. A placement that the Dutchman justified by the need to “remain safe” while she is an affirmed candidate for the final victory.
Indeed, she considers that the back of the peloton is “the most dangerous place”. But, when she had not been little supported by her teammates of the SD World-Protime team after her fall during the fifth stage of the Tour de France women 2024, she praised the work of all the FDJ-Suez training. “My team did an excellent job today (Tuesday) to support me all day,” she concluded. It was really great. Enough to finish a step that promised to be complicated with a frank smile and an ambition always present.
