Last year Demi Vollering set the bar high when she walked away from the Ardennes Classics with a clean sweep to add to her already successful season start which included a Strade Bianche victory, so leaving the spring one-day races in 2024 without even one title defence clearly hasn't been easy.
Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège represented her last chance, but it was again a near miss for the SD Worx-Protime rider who is still looking for her first win on the season. After she was beaten in the small group sprint to the line by Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez) and Elisa Longo Borghini (Lidl-Trek), it was only third place in the Monument for Vollering, to add to her second at La Flèche Wallonne Femmes.
