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Puck Pieterse and Mathieu van der Pol pull off a stunning victory at the World Cup Besançon.
With no Wout van Aert in the race, van der Poel (Alpecin–Dessunsink) made it to the lead before launching a big attack on lap four of nine and immediately gaining a significant gap on the chasing group of seven. Played conservatively in the lap of.
The Dutchman’s final winning margin was 49 seconds ahead of Laurens Sweeck (Crellen Fristads), with Joris Nieuwenhuis (Baolois Trek) a further 52 seconds back in third.
After the win, van der Poel will carry the momentum into next weekend’s World Championships.
“I felt great,” said van der Poel, noting that he had no problems.
“It was a fast course. It depends on the weather conditions next week, but of course I can feel happy with how I felt today and hopefully with some rest next week I will feel my best “
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In the women’s race, Peeters (Alpecin Dessinnck) remained largely untouched by the absence of her nearest rivals Fame van Ampel (Jumbo-Visma) and Shirin van Aarooij (Baloise Trek), both of whom instead raced the X2O Trophy in Hamme on Saturday Opted for. ,
After recovering from a chain slip at the start of the race that cost him some time, Pearce attacked on lap three, with Inge van der Heijden and the 777’s Annemarie Worst, SD Works’s Blanca Voss and Zoe Buxtedt ( Right behind EF Education TIBCO SVB) .
Later that same lap Pieterse finally shook off the 777 pair and spent the rest of the race alone while van der Heijen and Wurst continued to chase.
Pieterse’s final victory margin was 37 seconds ahead of Worst, with Van der Heijden third by 43 seconds.
“I feel better today. I think my chain got caught in my front ring on the first lap, I think it was a bit of a bummer but I thought I could be too strong and then I decided to go solo,” Peters said after the race. Said after.
“It takes a lot of energy. I think maybe I wanted to get back a little bit quicker and then I saw it was still a big front group and I could have rested and recovered a bit and then I attacked decided to do.
On the victory of his rival Fame van Ampel the previous day, Pieterse said: “We need to show each other what we certainly deserve.”
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