TakeWorlds3 weeks ago
Vollering has said it before: if you want to win with her, you build the whole team around one leader. Montreal is the proof. Puck Pieterse and Vollering rehearsed the lead-out during course recon — and when Pieterse looked back with three laps to go, there was no one left on Vollering's wheel.
This wasn't strength-in-numbers Dutch cycling. It was Karlijn Swinkels setting tempo, Pieterse delivering a lead-out she'd practiced days earlier, and everyone else riding for a single result. «We had during the course recon already practiced a bit... When Demi passed me, I looked back and there was no one in her wheel anymore» — Pieterse's account of the exact moment the plan worked. Vollering had floated this demand before; Montreal is the first time the whole roster built itself around it and delivered.
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