Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) has huge objectives forward within the coming weeks, with the Olympic Video games and Tour de France Femmes forward, however there was a second on stage 2 of the Baloise Girls Tour on Friday that all of it appeared in danger.
The race chief, who had already swept to victory on the prologue and on stage 1, may very well be seen transferring up towards the entrance of the peloton on her teammates wheel because the one kilometre kite approached to prepare for the dash into Zulte. Nevertheless, simply moments later Wiebes all of a sudden shot out the aspect of the bunch and onto the verge of the broad highway.
One thing clearly hadn’t gone to plan nevertheless it was arduous to inform from the footage simply what. A social media publish by SD Worx-Protime after the stage crammed in some blanks.
Nonetheless there was much more at stake than ruining her good run up to now on the Belgian race, the place Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich Submit NL) claimed the stage 2 victory and Wiebes completed eighth however nonetheless maintained the general lead.
In addition to the incident with Wiebes on stage 2, the run in to the road on stage 1 was marred by crashes – with two important crashes throughout the ultimate 10km, one with 7.2km to go took down about ten riders whereas one other, comparatively near the entrance of the group, inside 5km of the road noticed a number of extra riders go down.