'Once she starts winning, she will never stop,' Annemiek van Vleuten said in praise of her Movistar teammate Liane Lippert after she took victory in the uphill sprint on stage 2 at the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift into Mauriac. The world champion believes success breeds success and hopes that Lippert's achievement will help build her confidence for future victories.
"It's Liane's biggest victory so far; she won the Cadel Evans Road Race, and now this is, I think, a breakthrough win for her, and she will believe more in herself in the finishes she can do, finishes like this, also after a hard race," Van Vleuten said at the end of the rain-soaked race into Mauriac on Monday.
