2023-04-21 10:28:09
The Dutchwoman will be aiming for the hat-trick in the Ardennes classics this Sunday from Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
Like Tadej Pogacar for the men, the Dutch Demi Vollering will also aim for the hat-trick in the Ardennes classics on Sunday from Liège-Bastogne-Liège women.
«We will try to finish the job“, underlined the world number 2 in the UCI ranking after her demonstration on Wednesday in the wall of Huy to win the Flèche Wallonne, three days after having already won the Amstel Gold Race.
Only one runner has succeeded in this pass of three and it is none other than her compatriot Anna van der Breggen – in 2017, the year of the first edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège women – who is today the sports director of Vollering in the SD Worx team.
The Dutch formation is flying over the classics season with already eleven victories since the beginning of spring. And Vollering, 26, took more than her share since, before raging in the Ardennes, she also won the Strade Bianche and Through Flanders.
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Her main rival on paper, her compatriot Annemiek van Vleuten shines less than usual. Victorious in Liège in 2019 and 2022, the star of the Movistar team, who is playing her last season at the age of 40, is still waiting for her first success in 2023 and she was unable to compete in the Huy wall on Wednesday , finishing only seventh.
The Trek-Segafredo team also arrives with ambitions in Liège after the fine third place on Wednesday of the Italian Gaia Realini and the return of the Briton Lizzie Deignan, who won the 2020 edition and returns to competition after giving birth to her second child in September.
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