"It was the coldest race of my life. At some points, I was thinking that we were going to die." Marlen Reusser spoke through waves of shivers as she waited for the podium ceremony sitting alongside runner-up Megan Jastrab and third-placed Maike van der Duin behind the staging area after winning her first big Spring Classic at Gent-Wevelgem.
The odds seemed to be stacked against Reusser almost from the beginning. At a race like Gent-Wevelgem, which is well-suited to the sprinters. SD Worx had one of the strongest teams and many cards to play, but even Reusser had expected a sprint this year.
