Marta Cavalli won the Women’s Amsteld Gold Race from the team car

Sometimes cycle races are won from the team manager’s car, and they can also be beaten. And to achieving success, learning early in the land can be key, as seen this Sunday in Women’s Amstel Gold Race. In the eighth edition of the test, controversial on the 128 -kilometer route, victory went to Martha Cavalli.

The former Italian champion, 15 kilometers from the finish line, did not see himself with the necessary strength to continue fighting for victory, but from the car they told him to hold on, that this was his moment. And soon, at the gates of glory, he knew how to get ahead of his other rivals with another 1.6 kilometers.

In the last kilometer, the Movistar runner, Van Vleuten, knowing that in the last sprint he could do nothing against some rivals, he decided to attack, and at least in this way would drop some rivals and punish others. A good idea, but it didn’t end there.

A few meters away from the second group of runners, in a very broken platoon that was in the last bars, the leading group of Amstel enter the learning mode, when there are 1.6 kilometers to go a hard Martha Cavalli He attacks and gets meters before the passivity of his rivals. Quite incomprehensible, none of them went hunting for cremonaYes, the last few meters lasted forever, but he won the Amstel Gold Race relatively easily, a victory that he himself defined as the most important of his sports career. Highlight the 6th place of a fight throughout the day mavi garciaalready waiting for the men’s test.

CLASSIFICATIONS

1. Marta Cavalli (ITA/FDJ-Nouvelle Aquitaine) 3:00 pm 5:41 pm
2. Demi Vollering (PB/SD Worx) in 04
3. Liane Lippert (GER/DSM) id.
4. Annemiek van Vleuten (NED/Movistar) id.
5. Katarzyna Niewadoma (POL/Canyon) id.
6. Mavi Garcia (ESP/UAE) id.
7. Ashleigh Moolman (RSA/SD Worx) at 07
8. Elisa Balsamo (ITA/TRE) at 09
9. Coryn Labekki (USA/Jumbo) id.
10. Sofia Bertizzolo (ITA/UAE) id.
11. Juliette Labous (FRA/DSM) id.