Vuelta Femenina 2025, Vollering wins

Rome, 10 May 2025 - He had left his last trace with the third place in the Liège-Bastogne-Liège 2025, closed in third place behind Puck Pieterse and above all of the winner Kim LeCourt Pienaar: to make the news that afternoon that closed the women's season of Classics were his statements, in which he invoked his hormones to justify a less than perfect performance. Since then, the actual and personal calendar of Demi Vollering, which is redeemed with interest by winning the Vuelta Femenina 2025.

Race report

For the Dutchman it is the second success, with the podium completed by the Swiss Marlene Reusser and on the other Dutch Anna van der Breggen, whose return to cycling after the years spent in the team car is thus enriched by the first prestigious result. The link between the Spanish race and theNetherlands, an almost cannibalistic nation in this sport, is stronger than ever this year, with all the individual stages taking this path and not only thanks to Vollering, who wins 2 (the fifth and long-awaited last one, with the epilogue on the ramps of Quince), And Van Der Breggen, which had imposed itself in the fourth: the other stainless Marianne Vos wins the second and sixth stages (with the final green jersey attached), with Femke Gerritse to prevail in the second stage. To open the Return it had been a team time trial which instead had seen the celebration of Lidl Trek, with Letizia Paternoster to wear the red jersey for a day. This is one of the very few smiles for theItaly, which in the top 10 of the general classification places only Monica Trinca Colonel, seventh with a delay of 4'07 ".

Vollering's statements

After a year, therefore, it is still Vollering to stand out on the top step of the podium: unfortunately in the meantime the world has changed at a team level, with the (tumultuous) transition from Team SD Worx-Protime to the FDJ-Suez. "I am very proud of what I have achieved thanks to the team. It is nice to win and it is even better to do it twice in a row". It is no coincidence that the Dutchman is even more pressing the collective issue, which has become a hot topic after what happened at Tour de France Femmes 2024, between internal friction and perhaps a betrayal suffered despite the yellow jersey on my shoulders. "For me it is important to see that the victory is the result of teamwork, because I do not deny that when you change there is always a bit of fear. Instead we found each other right away and we showed everyone that we are capable of working well together. We did well from the first to the last kilometer. The girls helped me and motivated me especially in the first days, in which I had some problems. In the end we managed to win, and in the last kilometers I couldn't wait for the race to end. Now it's time to celebrate but - she concludes Vollering - then the time will come to think about the next races, trying to improve what didn't work here".

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