Cycling - Tour de France Femmes 2024 - Puck Pieterse : "To take the win here, ahead of Demi Vollering, it's really a dream coming true"
Après deux belles journées aux Pays-Bas et la prise de pouvoir (déjà) de Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime), le Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift quittait pour la première fois de cette 3e édition la Hollande pour rejoindre la Belgique ce mercredi, à l'occasion d'une 4e étape très attendue ! Au programme, deux Classiques ardennaises en une, avec un départ sur les routes de l'Amstel Gold Race avant d'emprunter les côtes du final de Liège-Bastogne-Liège (La Redoute, Forges et Roche-aux-Faucons). Disputée dans des conditions difficiles sous une pluie continue, cette étape a comme prévu fait de sacrés dégâts et le ménage au général. La victoire est revenue à Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck), auteure d'une superbe course pour signer à 22 ans son premier succès pro sur la route ! La spécialiste du cyclo-cross et du VTT s'est imposée de justesse au sprint devant Demi Vollering pour poursuivre le festival des Néerlandaises sur ce Tour.
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00:00Yeah, it's quite unbelievable actually, I don't know, the last few days I had super
00:10good legs, first day I had good legs, second day I had good legs and today I didn't feel
00:16my legs at all, it's always been good and to take the win here in a sprint against Demi
00:24that's really a dream come true.
00:27Can you describe your strategy in the last kilometre when Kasia attacked you, you never
00:31panicked?
00:32No, yeah, I knew they were riding for GC and I'm just here for the stage while I'm fresh
00:40so I could poker a bit, yeah I knew Kasia would attack and Demi would have to follow
00:47so I just tried to keep a poker face and take it from the sprint, I think I went quite early
00:56in the end but yeah I have never been here so I didn't know where the finish line was
01:01and yeah we had to wait for what felt like ages for the result but I'm so happy to take
01:08the win.
01:09This is the first tour for you, only 10 days on the road before that competition, how do
01:13you manage to be that competitive?
01:16I don't know, I just, yeah I live for this, I worked up so much to the Olympic Games and
01:25from there, yeah when you have good legs there you have good legs here.