Male Team 05 - 10 Sep
Simac Ladies Tour
578 Kilometers 6 Stages
Stages will be broadcast on the Eurosport App and GCN.
There will be bonuses only at the finish of road stages, 10-6-4″.
It is the end of the road for a legendary sportswoman. Annemiek van Vleuten retires from road cycling by taking part in her home country’s national stagerace, the Simac Ladies Tour, which has taken multiple steps to make the ‘Campionissima’ from the Movistar Team feel comfortable and loved into her final event.
There will be two time trials, both really short: the inaugural one, a 2.4km prologue in Ede, few minutes away from Miek’s house (Tuesday 5th); and stage two, also a short one at 7.1km, in no less than Leuven, Belgium (Thursday 7th).
We should get two bunch sprints, in Gennep (Wednesday 6th) and Lelystad (Friday 8th), while the weekend’s hills should be key: a stage in Valkenburg around the Cauberg on Saturday 9th will be followed by the emotional showdown in Arnhem on Sunday 10th, over Annemiek’s usual training roads next to her mother’s house in the Posbank area.