Demi Vollering, new road world champion after an epic and dramatic battle in Montreal

Blood, sweat and tears. After an epic 180 kilometer battle between Brossard and Montreal, the Dutch Demi Vollering She has achieved her dream of being a world road champion. After being eighth in the time trial, the Pijnacker runner She has fought endlessly to achieve the long-awaited gold and despite the opposition of her rivals she has finally been able to achieve it, after winning bronze last year and silver in 2024. Behind her, a fight Kasia Niewiadoma.

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The Pole, third in 2021, tried to play her cards, but in the end she had to lift her foot in the sprint before breaking and the Italian followed her Longo Borghinivery combative all day and who ended up winning her fourth bronze in a World Cup, after those in 2012, 2020 and 2024.

It has been an exhausting and agonizing World Cup. Precious. 180 kilometers in which the cyclists had to do eight laps of the Mont Royal circuit, packed with people and dotted with short, explosive slopes that break your legs.

A road World Championship marked by equality between the top contenders for the places of honour, but many of them got off the bike as a result of a multiple fall that occurred 94 kilometers from the finish line, in which 15 runners were affected. One of the several people affected in this incident was the Catalan Paula Blasithe Spanish with the most options, who was forced to abandon. Mireia Benito and Mavi GarcíThey fought until the end, but they couldn’t keep up with the best. Other cyclists who would end up abandoning and who could be bet on were Fisher-Black or Kim Le Curt.

Netherlands It presented an alienation that was frightening and monopolized the privileged positions of the platoon. They set the pace, with the French women always attentive. With three laps to go, and with almost 40 kilometers left, the Dutch Puck Pieterse He forced his rivals so much that he broke them and in this situation, finding himself like the one who says he is alone in the lead, his compatriot Demi Vollering attacked. It was a very complicated company. She had a margin of 25 seconds at 31 kilometers from the finish line, which remained at 15 seconds at 18 kilometers, before being neutralized by her rivals.

Of all of them, the one that was kept the most was Niewiadoma. The Polish, winner of the Tour de France in 2024, the Dutch and Longo Borgini. The Italian, very combative, tried to surprise 14 kilometers from the finish line, in the last step across the finish line, but there was still a lot left and despite emptying out, she was chased by Niewiadoma and Vollering. that they were going to give a real recital.

He said Vollering that the end of the World Championship was flat and boring, but surely when push came to shove the last kilometers were anything but boring, since he had to fight face to face with a Niewiadombecause he has demanded the best version of Vollering. Demi had everything to win in the final sprint, but the Dutchwoman had to push herself to the limit to overcome a feisty Niewiadoma, who almost broke down at the end. Bronze for the Italian Longo Borghini, that has resisted despite the attack from behind the Swiss Marlen Reusser, time trial world champion a few days ago. Tears on the face of an excellent runner like few others, who in the same season has managed to win the Giro d’Italia, the Tour de France and now the World Cup.