Multi-discipline star Puck Pieterse will switch her focus back to the road and make her debut at the upcoming Tour de France Femmes, after a late puncture in the Paris Olympics cross-country mountain bike race took away an all-but-certain silver medal.
The Tour de France Femmes will not only be Pieterse's first Grand Tour, it is also her first stage race at elite level, with her road career to date solely consisting of one-day events. However, she has brought home a string of top results despite her inexperience, including fifth at Strade Bianche last year, sixth at her first Tour of Flanders in April and only one result outside the top 10 in the whole of 2024.
