"It was a top performance by Marianne,” said Rabo Liv team manager Sierk-Jan de Haan. “She is further along than we thought. And the team deserves a co𒀰mpliment. We were cl🌌early the best team today.”
Vos, a multiple time road and cyclo-cross world champion, was forced to take a break last year due to a hamstring injury that she sustained at the Dutch national cyclo-cross championships at the beginning of January 2015. Although she raced a couple of times last spring, Rabo Liv announced last June that she had 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:written off her 2015 goals.
Vos later described her health problems as a tired feeling, a sign of over-training but stated thꦛat she wo☂uld return in 2016 with an eye on the Olympic Games in Rio.
Although the odds are almos🥃t alwa♎ys in favour of a rider with a palmares as rich as Vos’, the Pajot Hills Classic presented a challenging parcours with an uphill finish and a high-level field.
Vos is known for her multitalented ability on the bike and just as well for her smart tactics. And so it was a combination of her surprise and powerful attack, which was initially meant to lead out teammate Pauline Ferrand-Prevot, over the shortꦿ climb to the finish line that left the front runners unable to respond to the winning move.
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Vos crossed the line ahead of runner-up Megan Guarnier (Boels-Dolmans) and third placeﷺd Lotta Lepisto (Cervelo Bigla).
"Marianne surprised herself with her l♊ast punch," Sierk-Jan de Haan sa🌠id in a team press release.
"They did not expect this at all. They would start the sprint uphill for Pauline. They did. Marianne dropped [the riders] from afar, but Pauline could not get [around her] the neither could the other riders. The difference was biꦉg for a 🍌sprint.”
