Lorena Wiebes would be the sole chief of a strong Dutch workforce within the elite ladies’s race on August 4 on the Paris Olympic Video games.
Nationwide coach Loes Gunnewijk confirmed the choice to nominate Wiebes because the workforce chief in an interview with NOS but in addition said that the four-rider choice gives for choices throughout totally different race eventualities.
“Lorena would be the chief. We’ve a number of irons within the hearth. The competitors can have a tough time with this group,” Gunnewijk mentioned.
The Dutch workforce introduced the elite ladies’s workforce earlier this week, which additionally contains Tour de France champion Demi Vollering, former multi-time world champion and Olympic champion Marianne Vos and three-time time trial world champion Ellen van Dijk.
Vollering and Van Dijk will even compete within the particular person time trial on July 27.
“It was not a straightforward selection,” Gunnewijk mentioned. “The extent of the Dutch riders is excessive. Primarily based on the course, we’ve got developed totally different eventualities. We seemed on the attainable course of the race, the time trial and the talents required. These 4 names belong to that.”
The elite ladies’s street race is a 158km occasion that begins and finishes on the Eiffel Tower on the Pont d’Iéna between the tower and the Trocadéro Gardens. The ladies will race a bigger loop of 110km earlier than returning to finish two laps of an 18.4km circuit.
The course has been in comparison with that of the Tour of Flanders by way of its difficult, brief however sharp ascents alongside a one-day classics-type route.
Gunnewijk said that the route wasn’t the one deciding consider figuring out who would race for the Dutch workforce; different elements included the riders’ strengths, personalities, and the way nicely they match collectively as a workforce.
She mentioned the longlist additionally attended a sort of coaching camp that targeted on team-building workouts.
“We organised workforce days for this goal and carried out persona analyses,” she mentioned. “We checked out how they’ll finest use one another’s qualities and the way they’ll strengthen one another on this regard.”
