Pieterse: “I knew I just had to wait”

April 23 ^rd 2025 - 19:14

Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck): “In a race like this, it was actually quite easy to stay calm because I think almost all the teams wanted to wait until the last climb. So it was just a case of waiting and I knew that before, so we tried to just wait a lot and just stay active during the race, not falling asleep before important points, but luckily the team was always there to give me a good lead out. Demi (Vollering) got a really good lead out from Juliette (Labous) and I decided to stick on the wheel and just wait, wait, wait a bit longer and then I think halfway through the Mur, I was like, ‘they should be hurting a lot’, but I still felt quite good actually. I knew I just had to wait until around 150 metres to go to really make the next acceleration. After that, I did not look back, so I don't know how close it was in the end.”