Even two-time individual time trial World Champion, Chloé Dygert (Canyon-SRAM) wasn’t strong enough to deny Demi Vollering (SD Worx-Protime) a win in the short 6.3km Rotterdam race against the clock on stage 3 of the Tour de France Femmes.
After a rocky season undone by crashes, injuries and illness, Dygert, amazingly, donned the rainbow stripes for the first time this season during the seven-and-a-half-minute effort. She set the equal fastest time at the intermediate time check past the Erasmusbrug bridge, before losing five seconds to Vollering in the 2.4km run to the line and with it the stage.
