Lorena Wiebes would be the sole chief of a robust Dutch crew within the elite girls’s race on August 4 on the Paris Olympic Games.
National coach Loes Gunnewijk confirmed the choice to nominate Wiebes because the crew chief in an interview with NOS but in addition acknowledged that the four-rider choice offers for choices throughout completely different race situations.
“Lorena would be the chief. We have a number of irons within the fireplace. The competitors could have a tough time with this group,” Gunnewijk stated.
The Dutch crew introduced the elite girls’s crew earlier this week, which additionally consists of Tour de France champion Demi Vollering, former multi-time world champion and Olympic champion Marianne Vos and three-time time trial world champion Ellen van Dijk.
Vollering, Van Dijk can even compete within the particular person time trial on July 27.
“It was not a straightforward selection,” Gunnewijk stated. “The degree of the Dutch riders is excessive. Based on the course, now we have developed completely different situations. We seemed on the attainable course of the race, the time trial and the abilities required. These 4 names belong to that.”
The elite girls’s highway race is a 158km occasion that begins and finishes on the Eiffel Tower on the Pont d’Iéna between the tower and the Trocadéro Gardens. The girls will race a bigger loop of 110km earlier than returning to finish two laps of an 18.4km circuit.
The course has been in comparison with that of the Tour of Flanders by way of its difficult, quick however sharp ascents alongside a one-day classics-type route.
Gunnewijk acknowledged that the route wasn’t the one deciding consider figuring out who would race for the Dutch crew; different elements included the riders’ strengths, personalities, and the way nicely they match collectively as a crew.
She stated the longlist additionally attended a sort of coaching camp that targeted on team-building workout routines.
“We organised crew days for this objective and carried out character analyses,” she stated. “We checked out how they’ll greatest use one another’s qualities and the way they’ll strengthen one another on this regard.”