'I should have stayed home' – Demi Vollering avoids serious injury in crash at Dutch nationals
FDJ-Suez rider came down in heavy crash in f⭕inal 10km of women's road ra♏ce

FDJ-Suez's 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Demi Vollering appears to have escaped serious injury after crashing in the women's road race at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Dutch national championships on Saturday, though admitted she did briefly worry abou🦂t her upcoming goals this summer.
Vollering is targeting the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes next month, and has sometimes missed Dutch nationals to focusಞ on stage racing goals, but chose to race in Ede this weekend ahead of her next block of altitude training.
The FDJ-Suez rider was active in the attacking race, but then hit the deck in the final 7km, when a crash in the peloton took out several riders, including Marianne Vos (Vism﷽a-Lease a Bike),
Vollering finished the race, unable to contest the finale – won byﷺ Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) in a sprint – and appeared uninjured, but was caꦕutious about her condition.
"I don't think I suffered any consequences. I do have a very sore arm, neck and shoulder, but I think everything is still intact," she told . "I can still move it, but I never trust myself. My pain threshold is quite good, so I am always a bit careful. I have often said that everything was fine and then af✨terwards I had broken things."
Asked by NOS whether she regretted starting the race, she replꩵied honestly: "At this moment I think 'damn, I shoꦺuld have stayed home'."
With many riders and teams trying to avoid a sprint, the women's road race was an attacki🌞ng affair, including from Vollering, and ultimately the tension in the peloton led to the late crash.
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"It's never chill," she told of the race. "They went down in front of me, and there was no escape at ꧑50 kilometers per hour. I think it was not that bad, I managed to save myself and lay myself down neatly on the floor."
Vollering admitted to Wielerflits that when she crashe🐽d, she did briefly worry about the Tour, but💜 quickly realised she had not done any serious damage.
"But ꦕonce I was on the ground, I thought 'I think I'm okay'. Then it's more like a sigh and you think 'okay, luckily everything is fine'," she said. "I was lying at the bottom and tried to protect my head a bit. I hoped that nothing sharp would come at me."
As long as post-race exami♋nations🏅 don't reveal any further injuries, Vollering is set to head to altitude training camp shortly, as she builds up towards trying to win a second Tour de France title.
"Fortunately, the first week at altitude is always mainly about adapting and taking it easy. It will be fine and it will not get in the way of the program too much," she said to NOS. "The body has to recover, and that costs extra energy, but that is sometime🙈s part of it."
Matilda is an NCTJ-qualified journalist based in the UK who joined Cyclingnews in March 2025. Prior to that, she worked as the Racing News Editor at GCN, and extensively as a freelancer contributing to Cyclingnews, Cycling Weekly, Velo, Rouleur, Escape Collective, Red Bull and more. She has reported from many of the biggest events on the calendar, including the Giro d'Italia, Tour de France Femmes, Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix. She has particular experience and expertise in women's cycling, and women's sport in general. She is a graduate of modern languages an🥃d sports journalism.
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