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Disappointed Annemiek van Vleuten heads to Tenerife training to find extra for Tour of Flanders

Disappointed Annemiek van Vleuten heads to Tenerife training to find extra for Tour of Flanders


After coming fifth at Saturday’s Strade Bianche world champion Annemiek van Vleuten is in the rare position of walking away from her first block of racing for the season without a victory.

The Movistar rider, who is racing her final season, has twice crossed the line first at the race with ‘the most beautiful finish of our whole calendar’ but in her final edition of the race, which finishes in the Piazza del Campo in Siena, she had to settle for a place off the podium. She rode over the line just over two minutes after Demi Vollering (SD Worx) claimed victory ahead of her teammate Lotte Kopecky – who Van Vleuten finished second to last year.

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