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Chasing silver ‘when there’s not a lot of a dash left’ – Vos salvages medal for Dutch in Olympics highway race



When the Dutch workforce lined up for the ladies’s highway race on Sunday it was a final likelihood for the nation to assert a highway biking medal on the Paris Olympic Video games, with Lorena Wiebes the main contender for the squad however some extraordinarily highly effective choices ought to the race not play into the sprinter’s arms.

After Wiebes and Tour de France winner Demi Vollering have been caught behind when a crash break up the peloton, the duty to salvage the medal hopes of the Netherlands fell on the succesful and skilled shoulders of Marianne Vos, a rider who claimed her first gold medal on the monitor in Beijing in 2008 after which one other in London through the highway race in 2012. Twelve years later as she headed towards the road within the shadow of the Eiffel Tower amongst a bunch of three, gold had already escaped her after a solo transfer from Kirsten Faulkner (USA) however there have been nonetheless two medals to chase.

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