Since his victory in Dublin at the beginning of December, Lucinda Brand no longer raised his arms. But after seven 2nd places and one 3rd place, the Dutch Champion of training Baloise Trek Lions found the path to success this Monday evening during the 6th round of the Telenet Superpretige in Diegem, ahead of his pet peeve of recent days: Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado (Fenix-Deceuninck). “It feels really good. This is what we are fighting for”she confided in a post-race interview. “It was really difficult. Ceylin is very good at hanging on. She always manages to save energy and make up time on certain sections.”
Video – The day before, Brand had been beaten by Van Empel in Besançon
“That’s when she broke down…”
“I felt that I was a little better, but you still have to manage to widen the gap”continued Brandwho left his compatriot behind on the penultimate lap. “At one point, Ceylin changed bikes, and I said to myself: I have to take the risk of finishing the race with this bike. Try to create a big enough gap so that she can’t come back. And that’s that’s when she broke down.” Brand then managed to finish alone in the lead, even if it was not a walk in the park. The passages in the sandbox proved particularly complicated. “It was a very difficult section. We can try to push through, but the question remains whether it’s not faster to run. Maybe they weren’t my best runs in the sand, but It worked.”
In addition to this great victory in Diegem, Brand made an excellent operation for the general classification of the Super prestigesince it reduces its delay on Alvarado just one point away, with two rounds still to go. “It’s a ranking where we progress in small steps. The suspense remains intact”concluded the winner of the day.
