Newly-crowned elite women’s UCI Cyclo-cross World Champion Lucinda Brand captured a second rainbow stripes jersey and this time in front of a home crowd in the Netherlands on Saturday, but it was not without drama. The Dutch rider crashed while in a clear lead allowing rival Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado back to her wheel.
“It was OK. It was more that I had to stay calm," Brand said. "To see a little bit how Ceylin [del Carmen Alvarado] was riding and to see when and how to put the pressure on again. I knew also that if she can come back in a race, she's really hard to drop off again, especially on explosive course like this.
