{"id":896501,"date":"2026-09-15T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896501\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T09:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T09:42:11","slug":"heres-why-van-der-breggen-and-vos-arent-flying-to-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/896501\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s why Van der Breggen and Vos aren’t flying to Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dutch women’s team coach Laurens ten Dam<\/a> has announced his roster<\/a> for the World Cycling Championships in Montreal, Canada. It comes as no surprise, of course, that Tour de France Femmes winner Demi Vollering<\/a> is the team\u2019s leader. What did come as a surprise, however, was that neither Anna van der Breggen<\/a> nor Marianne Vos<\/a> made the cut. Ten Dam explained those choices in an interview with the AD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Demi is our leader, but at a World Cup, you need each other to go far. The key is to bring all those individual qualities together as a team. If we capitalise on our opportunities at the crucial moments, we can look forward to a great World Championships with confidence,” Ten Dam said.<\/p>\n

Read more below the photo!<\/p>\n

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Anna van der Breggen and Demi Vollering, along with Marlen Reusser, at the 2025 World Championships.<\/p>\n

Ten Dam explains the absence of Van der Breggen and VosMischa Bredewold, Riejanne Markus, Lieke Nooijen, Puck Pieterse, Karlijn Swinkels, and Femke de Vries will be going along to provide support, but Van der Breggen, Vos, and Lorena Wiebes<\/a> will not be there on the other side of the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

“Anna’s been feeling under the weather. I would have loved to have her here, but she\u2019s been sick a few times since the Tour de France,” said Ten Dam. “Lorena will still compete in a championship, but not this one. She\u2019s doing so well, though, that I even joked with her that maybe I wanted to take her along after all.”<\/p>\n

Lorena Wiebes also not in the Dutch World Championships team”But this course isn’t really suited for her, and she’s also competing in the Track Cycling World Championships<\/a> in Shanghai. Dragging her all over the world all the time, just because she can handle so much, isn\u2019t such a good idea. She could burn out at some point, even though it doesn\u2019t look like that\u2019s going to happen right now,\u201d the selection committee chair explained.<\/p>\n

So Vos won\u2019t be competing either. \u201cShe was disappointed, though. But due to personal circumstances\u2014the situation with her father\u2014she\u2019s had such a rough winter that she just hasn\u2019t been able to maintain consistency. I noticed she did have a bit of trouble going uphill every now and then. She\u2019s a top rider, but even top riders feel the effects when they\u2019ve had other things on their minds all winter.\u201d Vos will, however, be competing in the Gravel World Championships in Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dutch women’s team coach Laurens ten Dam has announced his roster for the World Cycling Championships in Montreal,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[19491,49,48,635,14915,19488,165758,25419,21277,82],"class_list":["post-896501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-anna-van-der-breggen","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-cycling-world-championships","tag-demi-vollering","tag-laurens-ten-dam","tag-lorena-wiebes","tag-marianne-vos","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}