Wiebes unbeatable as Simac Ladies Tour opens
To exactly no one's surprise, Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) won the opening stage of the Simac Ladies Tour, dominating a bunch sprint after 11 laps of a sprinter-friendly circuit around Leuven, Belgium on stage 1, but only after a late catch of a persistent breakaway.
Lidl-Trek was active early and often with breakaways but it was Visma-Lease a Bike's Margaux Vigie and Pfeiffer Georgi (Picnic-PostNL) who eventually went clear with 28 km to go and dangled off the front until they were caught just 200 meters from the line. Elisa Balsamo and Clara Copponi rounded out the podium for Lidl-Trek. Stage 2 is another circuit, 125.4 km around Gennep, with a profile that favors the fast finishers.
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