Pieterse looked back on a competition in which she had to deal with bad luck and (unintentional) luck. “I already had a puncture on the first climb. I tried to stay at the front, but that took some energy,” she said in the flash interview after the race. “Lucinda had about a 20 second lead until I saw her on the sidelines. I thought she had mechanical trouble. That was a bit of luck for me, but I mainly hope that everything goes well for her.”
Pieterse wins the World Cup in Zonhoven after falling from Brand
