Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) will not manage to include the evening cross in Diegem on his record for the third time in a row. The 22-year-old Dutchwoman is ill and will not travel to the Brussels suburbs on Monday, where the sixth Superprestige event of this season is scheduled.
“Puck didn’t feel 100 percent at Gavere last Thursday,” Fenix-Deceuninck’s Instagram statement read. “She already had stomach problems before the competition started. Although she rested, her condition worsened. After consultation with the team’s medical staff, it was decided not to let her participate in the Diegem cross country. We hope to see Puck Pieterse back in action soon.
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Last year, the Dutchwoman won the Diegem evening cross for the second year in a row. She then left behind her compatriots Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado and Inge van der Heijden and, after her third place in Gavere last Thursday, she was once again among the favorites for victory.
The other Puck will simply participate in the Turbocross in Diegem. Read his story below:
It’s raining cancellations
It didn’t stop with Pieterse’s cancellation alone. Crelan-Corendon announces the cancellation of three riders: Aaron Dockx, Marion Norbert Riberolle and the Italian champion Sara Casasola. “We unfortunately have a few absent this evening in Diegem, the last cross of 2024,” reports the Belgian team on Instagram.
“Sara Casasola has still not recovered from her viral infection and continues to suffer from the disease. Marion Norbert Riberolle felt slightly ill yesterday after the match in Besançon and is suffering from cold symptoms. Aaron Dockx did not feel fit enough in Besançon to compete with the best. After Zonhoven he fell ill and does not seem to have recovered sufficiently.
