\u201cIt was a tough day,\u201d Van Dam reflects. \u201cThe pace was high throughout the entire race. As a team, we did a good job by starting the local circuits together and near the front, where the race really exploded. I felt good and managed to stay with the strongest riders. In the final kilometre, I tried to open a gap on the competition, but unfortunately I wasn\u2019t able to do so. I gave it everything I had in the sprint, but just came up short. In any case, I\u2019m looking back on the race with a good feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Canadian hopes to carry that good feeling into Saturday, when the Classic Lorient Agglomeration is on the programme. \u201cI\u2019m really looking forward to Saturday. As a team, we showed today that we are in good form, and we hope to carry that into Saturday. It would be great to be involved in the finale as a team again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was a tough day,\u201d Van Dam reflects. \u201cThe pace was high throughout the entire race. As a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[248288,4985,248287,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-751777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-but-was-ultimately-beaten-in-the-sprint-by-loes-adegeest-of-lidl-trek","tag-cycling","tag-sarah-van-dam-rewarded-herself-for-a-strong-ride-with-a-podium-finish-at-kreiz-breizh-elites-feminin-the-24-year-old-rider-showed-she-was-among-the-strongest-in-the-race-during-the-finale","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751777","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=751777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}