Sunday January 19, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Puck Pieterse will not be at the start of the Benidorm World Cup today. The brand new Dutch champion has contracted a cold and feels forced to skip the Spanish World Cup round.
“Normally, both Puck Pieterse and Ceylin Alvarado would ride the World Cup in Benidorm on Sunday. Unfortunately, Puck caught a cold last weekend. She has not yet fully recovered from this, which means she had to cancel last minute for the cross in Benidorm,” her team Fenix-Deceuninck said.
Due to Pieterse’s cancellation, world champion Fem van Empel is the clear top favorite for the cyclo-cross in Benidorm. However, it will certainly not be easy, because there are quite a few strong riders at the start, including Alvarado, Marianne Vos, Lucinda Brand and Zoe Bäckstedt.
