Marianne your continues his demonstration of force on The female return By signing a second stage victory this week. In Baltanás, the Dutchman of Team Visma | Lease a Bike imposed itself on the sprint before Mischa Bredewold (SD World – Print), after a quick and very disputed arrival. If she knew how to make all her experience speak to sneak in the last meters, this victory was not easy to drop out.
VIDEO – The reaction of Marianne Vos on arrival
“We were all out of breath”
“I am very happy … and also exhausted, to be honest. We knew, as a team, that today it was an opportunity for us”said Vos on arrival. “The first victory removes of course a little pressure, but today, we really wanted to give everything, and that is what we did. There were a lot of long open lines, with just enough wind to complicate things. It was mainly a headwind, which was not ideal for the breakaway. A big group was formed, and we had two runners in it, with Marion Bunel. wanted to control.
The arrival was fast with the descent, and each team wanted to launch their sprint. It was already quite hard to stay well placed in the last ribs, but in any case I was really well positioned for the final. As during the previous sprint stage, Imogen Wolff has prepared the last turn for me very well. Then Mischa Bredewold launched his sprint, and in the last 150 meters, we were all out of breath. It was very tight, and I am happy to have been able to win the victory. We are very happy with today’s result and we will take advantage of it to celebrate, but then we will have to prepare for a difficult last step. “
