Demi Vollering destroys former teammates Reusser & Van der Breggen to take victory on FDJ - Suez debut - “I feel very proud"
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After her departure from Team SD Worx - Protime and the subsequent war of words in the media, Demi Vollering hasn't waited long to prove a point to her former employers. On the opening stage of the 2025 Setmana Valenciana Femenina, Vollering destroyed former teammates Marlen Reusser (now at Movistar Team) and Anna van der Breggen to take a dominant victory in her first raceday for FDJ - Suez.
“The team was really strong today, so I hoped to finish it off,” Vollering said in her post-stage interview afterwards, having gone clear on the final climb of the day and eventually prevailed by 30 seconds at the finish line. “I feel really good on the bike. When I saw Marlen and Anna working behind, I knew I had to give everything to the finish line.”
“I feel very proud because it is still so early in the season that I am already in good shape and I still have a lot of work to do,” Vollering continued. “The team gave me a lot of confidence to work for me in the plan we made."
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First race of the season, first win of the season! 🇳🇱 Demi Vollering soloes to victory at #SetmanaCiclista. 👑
— Domestique (@Domestique___) February 13, 2025
🥇 Demi Vollering
🥈 Marlen Reusser
🥉 Anna van der Breggen
Also Anna van der Breggen, what a way to make a comeback. 🔥pic.twitter.com/cpYigEsp0T
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- Too much amatuer psychology. How about this: "he was never as good as when he had not suffered multiple career-threatening injuries." What is happening to him is what happened to Alaphilippe, Bernal, and others. You will notice that his two major peers -- MVDP and Mads - are both at their all time best. You will also note that neither is coming off of anything like the same last 18 months that Wout is. Go back to 2022, then roll the tape forward with Wout remaining healhty and one of them having had multiple traumatic falls. Odds are good he'd be at his dominant best and they would not.MidnightRider31-03-2025
- Raymond Poulidor, Alfredo Binda.... where do we stop. If you want to retitle it is Primoz Roglic the bestr rider never to win the tour in the last ten or 20 years then that might be betterslappers6631-03-2025
- Let me help you. Alfredo BindaUpHill31-03-2025
- He'll certainly last it and prob ride his own race, at the front 😁
leedorney31-03-2025 - Gaio Primus Caesar Roglus, Rome is waiting for you, Imperator :-)).
maria2024202431-03-2025 - And he probably wasn’t even at the limit ;-) Have to wonder how much Mads could catch up if he’d tune his physique to be as sharp as MVDPs’Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Respect for giving Van Eetvelt credit there.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- He’s already a star for me for HAVING complained about it, the recent trend having been, let them then try to take advantage by making them sign NDAs ;-)Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Agreed, but if it was a radio thing then all the riders should have the same story and it would be easy to call anyone out. Kind of surprised this isn’t cleared up half officially afterwards, just like the Alaphilippe divorce, seems like once something spreads on the net it kind of gets accepted that everyone wants to have their own truth so no-one bothers to contest anything that’s verifiable anymore, we all just move on.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- maybe. what makes that a LITTLE fishy is that they suddenly hit the gas and started hammering it. even mathieu, who i’ve never heard complain about ANYTHING (other than teenage girls waking him up and being spit on by belgians) was pretty hacked off about the race tactics after the split. i think he was upset for what his teammates had to do, not for the fact he ended up isolated as a result.OCexile31-03-2025