CONFIRMED: Demi Vollering leaving Team SD Worx-Protime at the end of the season: "It’s about budget"

Although her future has been heavily rumoured of late with talk of record-breaking offers from across the peloton, it has now been confirmed that Demi Vollering will leave Team SD Worx - Protime at the end of the season.

"Everyone knows that Lotte Kopecky has signed until 2028 and we’ve tried hard to keep the team but for Demi, I don’t think that it’s an option for us," Team SD Worx - Protime's sports director, Danny Stam has told GCN prior to the start of Dwars Door Vlaanderen WE 2024 on Wednesday afternoon.

Vollering brought Team SD Worx - Protime their crowning glory in 2023, winning the Maillot Jaune at the Tour de France Femmes and seems set to take over where the great Annemiek Van Vleuten left off as the new face of women's Grand Tour cycling. That future won't be in the colours of SD Worx however.

"It’s about budget that's definitely sure," Stam elaborates, explaining how the team were forced to choose between Vollering and Kopecky. "You need to make a choice, and at one moment things can go away but I think it’s clear that we can’t have two riders from that level in our team."