Vollering's race started perfectly: She spent the first two flat stages working hard for Lorena Wiebes, SD Worx's star sprinter, and even with Wiebes losing both stages to Charlotte Kool, the team looked like the strongest in the peloton.
Though Vollering lost the sprint at the end of Stage 4's thrilling Liège-Bastogne-Liège cover act, the racing was so demanding that she picked up serious time on almost all of her GC rivals, with only Kasia Niewiadoma and Juliete Labous within a minute of her.
Not after Stage 5. Vollering was caught up in a big crash six kilometers from the finish line, which is basically the worst possible place for something like that to happen.
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