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

When the Dutch workforce lined up for the women’s avenue race on Sunday it was a last probability for the nation to claim a avenue biking medal on the Paris Olympic Video video games, with Lorena Wiebes the primary contender for the squad nonetheless some terribly extremely efficient selections should 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 accountability to salvage the medal hopes of the Netherlands fell on the succesful and expert shoulders of Marianne Vos, a rider who claimed her first gold medal on the monitor in Beijing in 2008 after which one different in London in the midst of the road race in 2012. Twelve years later as she headed in direction of the highway inside the shadow of the Eiffel Tower amongst a bunch of three, gold had already escaped her after a solo switch from Kirsten Faulkner (USA) nonetheless there have been nonetheless two medals to chase.