"I thought I couldn't go anymore"- Lotte Kopecky almost gave up after crash in Paris-Roubaix Femmes

Team SD Worx dominated the spring classics, but the Paris-Roubaix Femmes race proved to be a different story, with the team only managing a seventh-place finish with Lotte Kopecky.

A major crash also affected many favourites and including Kopecky and her teammates. "I think we were going pretty well towards the breakaway but then this happened. But it's also bike racing,” she told Cyclingnews.

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She continues, "It was also that one-by-one, our team was taken out by punctures so that wasn't so nice. But then when I came into the group with Lorena, she really emptied herself completely to try to bring us as close as possible. And then we had a very strong Femke in the break.”

She described this edition as, an "animated Paris-Roubaix." She comes back to the crash and described she almost gave up while lying down. "It was actually a pretty hard one because I really hurt myself there. I just stayed down and thought I couldn't go anymore. But then the mechanic came, and he was like 'you want to try?' and I tried and in the end, I'm happy that I did. That's Paris-Roubaix. You can predict nothing,” concluded Kopecky.

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