📺🏆 Today’s @AvVleuten success on stage four of the 🇮🇹 #GiroDonne22 makes it 9️⃣0️⃣ UCI victories for the Olympic champion. Might as well reach century before retirement?! 🤔😎 #MiekItHappen | #RodamosJuntos
Annemiek van Vleuten says "attacking is the best way to defend, and that is what I did today" after victory in Giro d'Italia Donne Stage 4
CyclingMonday, 04 July 2022 at 23:45
Annemiek van Vleuten won stage 4 of the Giro d'Italia Donne. Van Vleuten and Garcia sprinted to secure victory where the Dutch rider narrowly won the stage.
After an opening time trial and two sprint stages on the island of Sardinia, the 120.9km race in Cesena was the first hilly stage in the tour. "When the stages were announced, today was not a day that I thought, 'I will go for it.' When I did a recon of it yesterday, I saw the crazy descents twice, and I didn't want to be put under pressure," Van Vleuten said.
She further added, "I thought about Johan Cruyff from the Netherlands, a famous football player known from Barcelona, who always said, 'attacking is the best way to defend, and that is what I did today. I thought it would be easier to attack, and then I could go down the descent easy. It was to stay safe and out of trouble today. I saw a gap and went for it."
Her stage victory has helped her to reach the top position at GC. Van Vleuten currently holds 25-second lead over runner-up Garcia, and a 57-second lead over third-placed Cavalli.
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