SD Worx-Protime’s Anna van der Breggen is the latest GC contender to abandon the UAE Tour Women, pulling out ahead of stage 4 with illness.
According to a statement on social media, the Dutch rider is suffering with a throat infection, and decided on Sunday morning not to start the final stage to Jebel Hafeet.
Van der Breggen joins Marlen Reusser (Movistar) in the list of GC riders who travelled to the UAE and started the first sprint stages, but won’t make it to the decisive day of climbing. Reusser didn’t start stage 3 after crashing at speed on stage 2, though she came away with relatively minor injuries – only cuts rather than any fractures.
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