Cycling News

Ellen van Dijk: If anyone can bounce back it’s Annemiek van Vleuten

Ellen van Dijk: If anyone can bounce back it's Annemiek van Vleuten


As Riejanne Markus, Annemiek van Vleuten and Ellen van Dijk rolled out of the start gate for the team time trial mixed relay at the UCI Road World Championships the Dutch were already on the back foot, with Bauke Mollema having dropped a chain, leaving Mathieu van der Poel and Daan Hoole to power through to the line alone. 

Things quickly got far worse for the race favourites.  No sooner had the women rolled out of the gate intent on making up the time lost through Mollema’s mechanical than second in line van Vleuten lost control of her bike, her bike crashed into the barrier and she went down hard onto the ground, leaving her heading to hospital for x-rays and her bike a bent and broken mess. 

Click Here to Read the Full Original Article at CyclingNews RSS Feed…