First WorldTour win for Vos in Tour of California
Rabo-Liv rider shows sp💜a🤡rks of her old form in bunch sprint
Since the start of the UCI Women's WorldTour, one notable name has been missing from the top of the leader board - that of multiple world champion and defending Olympic gold medalist 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marianne Vos. That changed on Saturday in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Women's Tour of California, when Vos took out the stage win in 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Santa Rosa with a turn of speed reminiscent of her dominantꩵ form of old.
Vos is on her comeback season after taking most of 2015 off after injuries and overtraining led to a bit of burnout. Although she's🎃 won a few UCI 1.2 races, her best performance so far in the WorldT🍬our was a ninth place in La Flèche Wallonne.
"It's a big race and it's good to be here, and to take a stage is fantastic. The WorldTour is new andꦏ for me it's the first WorldTour win," Vos said after taking out a close sprint win from Coryn Rivera (UnitedHealthcare) in Santa Rosa on stage 3.
The 111km stage that headed out from Santa Rosa over the mountains to the coast and back looked like it would be cont🔜ested by a small group of favourites including race leader Megan Guarnier (Boels Dolmans) on the second climb up Coleman Valley Road. Rabo-Liv missed the move and faced a 90 second deficit on the run-in back to town.
Vos said she thought that there wouln't be any chance for a stage win at one point during the stage. "But when I saw my teammate Shara Gillow and together when we came over the climb we wanted to start to chase and seඣe how far we could get, maybe catch the leaders," she said.
Gillow put in a massive effort as the road levelled out, and reeled the breakaway back in before the finishing circuits. Vos then took the sprint into 🌊her own hands, and Rivera and third placed Emma Johansson (Wiggle-High5) could only watch as she powered away to victory.
"This final sprint, especially with the headwind, would suit me but still you don't know how your legs are after such a hard stage," Vos said. "It was a fast, fast road in and all the American teams definitely wanted to go for the sprint as well with some ༺fast 🐷riders."
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