Cycling: Zoe Backstedt, the daughter of the former Paris-Roubaix winner, alone, without a teammate, and still leader

He’s a sort of feminine Ghislain Lambert. Well almost… While the hero of the film, played by Belgian actor Benoit Poelvoorde, fought every day to stay in the race, the British Zoe Backstedt (Canyon-SRAM Racing) will fight for three more days to keep the lead in the Simac Ladies Tour, a stage race which runs until Sunday October 13, in the Netherlands.

She will be alone in this challenge since all her teammates, sick, gave up during the first two stages. This Thursday morning, she presented herself alone for the signature check on the starting line. With this question in mind: will the daughter of Magnus Backstedt, who won Paris-Roubaix 2004, winner of the individual time trial (10.1 km) on the first day, still be in the lead at the finish? of the third stage, marked by the wind and the edges, judged in Zeeweld?

By placing in nineteenth place in a first group settled in a sprint by the Dutchwoman Snike Smulders, she took up the challenge and maintains a three-second lead in the general classification on Belgian world champion Lotte Kopecki. She’s doing it again this Friday.