The penultimate stage race of the Women’s WorldTour season kicks off this Tuesday, with the six-day Simac Ladies Tour taking place in the Netherlands.
Owing to the Dutch terrain, the Simac Ladies Tour is one of the flattest stage races on the calendar, with plenty of sprint opportunities – and chances for opportunistic riders to try and upset the sprinters.
Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime)
SD Worx-Protime are not only the defending champions of Simac, but they’ve won the last five editions of the race, so they’ll head to this year’s edition looking to extend the streak that goes back to 2019. 2023 and 2024 champion Lotte Kopecky isn’t here, so they’ll look to Lorena Wiebes as their leader – though really most of the line-up could be a winner.
Wiebes will be looking at the five flat stages as five opportunities to win. There are a few Dutch ‘climbs’ thrown in, so the stages aren’t all entirely flat – stages 3 and 4 are – but these rises won’t be any kind of problem for a rider like Wiebes. When it comes to the sprint finishes, there is little that can get in the way of Wiebes, who is undoubtedly the fastest sprinter in the peloton. She comes here with a solid lead-out and it’s hard to look past her as a…
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