{"id":104154,"date":"2025-08-31T02:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104154\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T02:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T02:10:07","slug":"marianne-vos-takes-second-as-classic-lorient-agglomeration-sees-all-dutch-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/104154\/","title":{"rendered":"Marianne Vos takes second as Classic Lorient Agglom\u00e9ration sees all-Dutch podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visma-Lease a Bike were in control of the Classic Lorient Agglom\u00e9ration<\/a>, almost always having one or several riders in the front group \u2013 but in the end, their sprinter Marianne Vos<\/a> could not beat Mischa Bredewold (SD Worx-Protime) who took her third consecutive victory in Plouay<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to be in control of the race, to be ahead where possible. When the big group went, we were involved with two, in the final, Femke bridged across and Pauline was also in front, so that was a good situation. But it came down to a sprint of the group, and Mischa Bredewold was faster,\u201d Vos looked back on the race in the post-race TV interview.<\/p>\n

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Seven years after her last participation, the 38-year-old returned to the Breton race that she had won in 2012 and 2013. As always, she was in contention for victory, but she came up short against Bredewold.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always an interesting finish. You come with a lot of speed, and the last bit is a little bit up. Mischa went early, she just kept more speed, more momentum, more power, so I couldn\u2019t keep up. It\u2019s a deserved victory,\u201d Vos doffed her cap to Bredewold.<\/p>\n

Finishing third, 23-year-old Eline Jansen (VolkerWessels) rounded out an all-Dutch podium, taking her first Women\u2019s WorldTour podium spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s always good to see fellow Dutch riders do so well, and it\u2019s nice to be on the podium together,\u201d said Vos, who was happy to see her compatriots going strong.<\/p>\n

For Bredewold<\/a>, beating Vos to win the race was a dream come true. At the Vuelta Femenina in May, Bredewold drew the shorter straw against Vos in all four sprints, but now the 25-year-old crossed the line first.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe\u2019s such an inspiration, she\u2019s the GOAT, she\u2019s such a legend. The sprint battle with her in the Vuelta was already something special for me, but of course I was also very motivated to beat her one time. I cannot believe that it happened, I\u2019m super happy,\u201d said Bredewold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visma-Lease a Bike were in control of the Classic Lorient Agglom\u00e9ration, almost always having one or several riders…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":104155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-104154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}