We will now be focused on the beginning and will not let a big group go, give them a lot of time, because that could be difficult,” Vollering said. At the Olympics we decided before hand that we could let some riders go, and that once we started racing, we would bring them back anyway. “We won’t let the race get out of our hands anymore. The Dutch will, once again, field the strongest team on paper but Vollering said that if there’s one thing they learned from their loss at the Olympic Games, it’s that they will not give too much leeway to the early breakaway. This year’s 157km route is punchy with technical finishing circuits that will favour powerful riders like Emma Norsgaard (Denmark), Lotte Kopecky (Begium), Coryn Rivera (USA) and Vos. The Dutch national team have consistently been the most powerful women’s national team in the world winning the last four consecutive road race world titles with Chantal van den Broek Blaak (2017), Annemiek van Vleuten (2019) and defending champion Anna van der Breggen (20), and before that, the three victories from Marianne Vos (2006, 20). Netherlands takes the top two steps of the elite women's road race at the 2020 Road World Championships (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)
You need to be able to see everything that happens, or you might miss it. In the big races, you really need to ride on your instincts, to be alert and to be focused for the whole race. “It makes it hard for communication, to discuss some things, you cannot always go to the car to discuss what is happening out front, or know what to do. You aren’t used to each other, not as much as your own teammates, and the coach is new,” Vollering said. Also, we are on a different team with a different coach in the car, so everything is new, and that makes it even more hard. “No radios at Worlds is odd because normally we always race with radios, and at the biggest races in the world World Championships and Olympic Games, we do not. She said that she has learned to become more focused and relies more on her instincts at races where in-race communication, such as radios, are not permitted. The absence of race radio mean riders have to carefully follow what’s happening in the race from inside the peloton.ĭemi Vollering, winner of La Course and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, told Cyclingnews that not having race radios presents some added obstacles that are not faced when racing at other events on the international calendar. Some national teams use their own systems of communication around the circuits to give their riders vital information. It also becomes more important that riders drift back to their support vehicles to get race details from a director, or they can monitor a moto-official’s information written on a whiteboard for the breakaway and peloton to view. Riders must instead rely on verbal communication with one another while racing on the road. The use of in-race radios is not permitted at the Olympic Games, European Championships or the World Championships, as it is when racing with trade teams on the Women’s WorldTour. It’s a point of professionalism of the World Championships and the Olympic Games that we have to deal with.”Ĭommunication is one of the most important aspects between officials, riders, and team staff within a bike race, which was reportedly lacking in areas in the women’s road race at the Olympic Games. “We managed to make it more clear in the European Championships and we will do the same here at the World Championships.
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