Puck Pieterse (Fenix-Deceuninck): “The whole day was quite hectic actually. We tried to be in the break but it didn’t work and they kept attacking, especially at the beginning. I was quite surprised that everyone mostly stayed upright in the beginning, I didn’t see any crashes actually. We came quite fast into the final. With 10km to go I tried to set the tempo to catch the leaders and maybe finish it off on the finish climb but there was a roundabout that had a really tight corner afterwards and I think nobody really expected it. It was just a big crash. I thought I was in quite an ok position, I was with [Lorena] Wiebes and [Demi] Vollering but there it was too far backwards to not crash. So now I have some extra nice red things [abrasions] to add to my polka dot jersey.”
