Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) has large targets forward within the coming weeks, with the Olympic Games and Tour de France Femmes forward, however there was a second on stage 2 of the Baloise Ladies Tour on Friday that all of it appeared in danger.
The race chief, who had already swept to victory on the prologue and on stage 1, could possibly be seen shifting up towards the entrance of the peloton on her teammates wheel because the one kilometre kite approached to prepare for the dash into Zulte. However, simply moments later Wiebes all of a sudden shot out the facet of the bunch and onto the verge of the huge street.
Something clearly hadn’t gone to plan nevertheless it was onerous to inform from the footage simply what. A social media post by SD Worx-Protime after the stage crammed in some blanks.
Still there was way more at stake than ruining her excellent run thus far on the Belgian race, the place Charlotte Kool (dsm-firmenich Post NL) claimed the stage 2 victory and Wiebes completed eighth however nonetheless maintained the general lead.
As properly because the incident with Wiebes on stage 2, the run in to the road on stage 1 was marred by crashes – with two important crashes throughout the remaining 10km, one with 7.2km to go took down about ten riders whereas one other, comparatively near the entrance of the group, inside 5km of the road noticed a number of extra riders go down.