Lorena Wiebes walked away from the Tour de France Femmes with a victory on stage 3, but her early departure through illness meant other opportunities slipped through her grasp. So did a tilt at the rainbow jersey at the Road World Championships, where she entered the road race among the favourites but left with a DNF.
Those key targets may have not run to plan but now Wiebes is now even more driven to make a success of the goals that remain, particularly given that includes an opportunity for the top sprinter to defend her European Road Championships title on home soil.
