'No regrets' for Demi Vollering in photo-finish sprint against Puck Pieterse

LIEGE, BELGIUM - AUGUST 14: Demi Vollering of The Netherlands and Team SD Worx - Protime - Yellow Lader Jersey reacts after the 3rd Tour de France Femmes 2024, Stage 4 a 122.7km stage from Valkenburg to Liege / #UCIWWT / on August 14, 2024 in Liege, Belgium. (Photo by Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)
Demi Vollering of SD Worx-Protime rides across t🍸he finish line in a soggy yellow jersey ꦗin second place on stage 4 of the Tour de France Femmes (Image credit: Dario Belingheri/Getty Images)

Yellow jersey Demi Vollering put a star next to stage 4 at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes, which combined the best parts of the Amstel Gold Race and Liège-Bastogne-Liège, both races she had won in previous years. But when officials confirmed that the victory went to Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck) after a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:photo-finish sprint, Vollering said she had "no regrets".

"It's a good day for me and for the whole team. My teammates did a good job with keeping me safe today and in the front. It was a nice day for us," the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:SD Worx-Protime rider told the press at the rain-soaked finish line in Li&egrꦡave;ge.

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