After Charlotte Kool (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL) withdrew from the UAE Tour Women due to illness, Lorena Wiebes (SD Worx-Protime) is the overarching favourite for three of the four stages of the Middle Eastern WWT race on stage 1 in Dubai, stage 2 from al-Mirfa to Madinat Zayed and stage 4 in Abu Dhabi, all expected to end in sprints.
“I was looking forward to racing against her,” Wiebes wasn’t happy that her biggest sprint rival was out of the race. At the pre-race press conference at the Abu Dhabi Cycling Club, she named several other riders as her main competitors.
