Femke de Vries

Um, Mavis Queen, still out in front, gets just swallowed up by Damie in just a split second.

damy was there and then damy goes on in powers there's three laps to go 31k and damy is off in the front and i think at that moment the race is done and this is exactly what they wanted i did the race recourse uh with all the race course recon with all the riders um and i saw them practicing this very move they they they practiced it femke de vries unfortunately got caught up in the crash so she wasn't able to do it in the in the actual race, but they had planned for this exact scenario.

Use Puck, use the springboard, go.

That was planning.

They changed their lineup.

Less superstars, more helpers for Demi, Tour de France champion, Liège winner, with Femke de Vries in and all the strong helpers in.

And that's the race we saw from the Dutch.

Yeah.

Like you say, one by one, the Netherlands riders...

They're passing through, they're passing through.

Femke de Vries was behind because of that big crash, by the way, but Lickinoy did a lot of work at the start of the race.

Then in the later phases, you saw the likes of Adriano Marquez doing that controlling work, then Swinkles and...

But, you know, the likes of Rihanna Marcus, Lee Kenoyan, Puck Peterser, who, you know, could have a chance also herself.

Carline Swinkles, Femke de Vries, who's been absolutely phenomenal.

Amber Crack.

I mean, they're all like the best of the best in terms of support riders and domestiques and have the potential to be champions themselves.

Emma Pieters.

Femke de Vries.

Like, it's a really strong-

Yeah, okay

For the most part, it's a team of people who know how to be a domestique.

We got Rihanna Marcus, Lika Noyan, the national champion, Caroline Swinkles, Femke de Vries, and yeah, Puck Peterse.

And those are the riders who are going to be supporting Bollering.

So I thought we would discuss this a little more in depth just because they are...

But I think for them, they can't just, it's clear they can't just get away with having the strongest rider and just walking away with the race.

They had to go back and be like, okay, Rihanna Marcus is a proven domestique.

It's a role that she's been in in multiple different team environments it's something that she knows how to do yes she's she's won big races in the past but she is someone who they can rely on to kind of put those ambitions aside and ride for the team same with carline swinkles for uae team adq she's an incredible domestique she can also win but she's like mainly in a domestique role it's like her default mode Femke De Vries, another really good rider, another rider who's up and coming and could get a really good result.

But she's been in a domestic role, uh, at a lot of like most of her career, except these like snippets of time this year where she's had a, had a leadership role, like at UAE tour.