'Try to do everything for Demi' – Labous ready to sacrifice for Vollering's Liège-Bastogne-Liège triple
French team has multiple ca🐭rds to play including pre-race favorite and two-time winner Vollering for La Doyenne

Once again, FDJ-Suez will line up for 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Li&♛egrave;ge-Bastogne-Li&egꦬrave;ge Femmes with impressive firepower in their ranks, including the pre-race favourite 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Demi Vollering, who has finished on La Doyenne podium in five out of her six starts, with victories in 2021 and 2023 and third place in 2019, 2022 and 2024𒁏.
After her victory at Strade Bianche Donne in March, Vollering is eager for another win in Liège, especially after narrowly missing out at La Flèche Wallonne Femmes on Wednesday, finishing just two seconds behind 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck).
Her team, and especially teammate 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Juliette Labous, worked to position her꧙ throughout the race and up the final Mur de Huy climb, but Pieterse ultimately outpowered her in the last 150 meters.
However, 🐻Vollering is not going into the race with a feeling of revenge against her compatriot Pieterse, she simply wants to win against all competitors.
&ld📖quo;She is doing really good this year," Vollering said of Pieterse, "and she won in Liège last year, so of course she’ll be a rider to watch. It makes for a rivalry, but it doesn’t matter against who I win, I alwa🐼ys want to win."
Labous said thaꦑt the team was fully committed to supporting Vollering, but was also prepared to pursue other opportuni🦄ties if they arose.
“We're going to really try to do everything for Demi because I think it's still the best card and so, we didn't win the Amstel or the Flèche so a little 🦹more pressure on the team so I think it will still be the best option but of course we have to be open-minded depending on the race scenarios," Labous told .
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FDJ-Suez manager Stephen Delcourt echoed that sentiment, noting that last year, the French team claimed victory in Liège thanks to Grace Brown, who retire🍌d at the end of 2024.
“Liège has shown that you can't just use one card, it’s a very open race,” he said. “We won with Grace Brown by taking the first breakaway. The scenario in𝓡 the women's race, the year [Lizzie] Deignan won, was that the breakaway was never seen again. So we can't just play with one card."
One of those cards could be Labous herself, who changed slightly her training approach last winter, and now “fe𒁃els really strong on punchy efforts and that was really my fault in recent years.”
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:152.9-km course through the Ardennes is peppered with nine climbs and features the finale of 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Côte de la Redoute, Les Forges and La Roche-aux-Faucons again.
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