Eight-times cyclocross world champion Marianne Vos is not going to be participating on this 12 months’s battle for the rainbow jersey this weekend in Lievín, France, as a result of a slower-than-hoped-for restoration from a race damage.
The 37-year-old Dutchwoman harm one among her calves when she fell in the course of the Maasmechelen World Cup race on January 25. In accordance with a Dutch Federation press launch, regardless of some enchancment, she has not but absolutely recovered.
“So as to not take any dangers and since this damage makes operating troublesome, it was determined that Marianne will skip this World Championship,” the Federation assertion stated.
“In fact, we discover this extremely unlucky,” stated nationwide coach Gerben de Knegt. “As an eight-time world champion, we might have favored to see Marianne strive for a brand new title, though we knew it might be troublesome after her fall. We want Marianne a speedy restoration!”
Vos shall be changed by Aniek van Alphen for the race, the assertion added.
Even with out Vos, the Dutch ladies’s line-up remains to be one of many strongest this weekend. It consists of double defending champion Fem van Empel, former rainbow jerseys Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado, Lucinda Model, and a number of podium finisher Puck Pieterse.
The Netherlands at present boasts 14 gold medals of their nation’s palmarès within the race, 10 greater than second-placed Germany, together with the final 5 editions.
Nevertheless, the lack of a star determine like Vos, who has eight gold Cyclo-cross World Championships medals – the present all-time document for a single rider in each males’s and ladies’s classes – can hardly fail to be seen, notably because the information of her withdrawal comes within the ultimate countdown to this 12 months’s race.
