
Lucinda Brand is determined to race the Dutch Cyclocross National Championships this weekend despite breaking her nose in a high-speed crash at the Zonhoven World Cup on Sunday.
Brand was leading the Zonhoven race after three laps with a healthy 20-second margin when she skidded on a left-hand bend, fell heavily and had to abandon. Compatriot Puck Pieterse, lying second at that point, subsequently won the race.