WHAT A RIDE! 🙌 | 2026 Women's Dwars door Vlaanderen Final KM's | TNT Sports Cycling

You've got Damie Vollering on the front here in the European Champions jersey chasing career win number 60 for her. What a career she's had. Classics. Umlup Het Nieuwsblad, Flèche Wallonne, Amstel Gold, 2 Strade Bianche, two times Liège-Bastogne-Liège winner of the Tour de France FAM. Avec Zwift, Marlene Reusser. You would say her biggest classic win coming in Gent-Wevelkamp. What is now in Flanders fields. Took that in 2023. World time trial champion. Plenty of stage wins in her career. Would be great to add another classic to the Palmares. Mischa Bredevold comes through to help at the front. But with 3.2k to go, almost seems like too much too late here. But you never know. This is bike racing. Can come right down into those final kilometres. Kim Lecourt driving on the front. They've just got to keep Franzi Koch and Liana Lipper out of that pace line if they can. They're ticking off the kilometres with 3.3k to go. They'll be looking for two, then the Flamme Rouge. And then the sprint will start between Marlene Reusser and Damie Vollering. Thoughts here on Reusser. Do you think she'll jump her before the end? Because we have seen them in an out-and-out sprint before with Reusser getting the better. But Damie Vollering for me looks like she's regained a lot of that sprint power of previous years this season. We saw in Setmana Valenciana that Damie Vollering was sprinting pretty well. I think it was on the final stage. As you mentioned previously, it looked like she kind of lost her sprint a bit. So it's quite difficult to say actually between these two. Of course, we haven't seen Marlene Reusser racing too much this season. So it will be difficult to pick between those two. But I think you'd be right when you say a potential attack coming before the finish. But having said that, now Marlene Reusser is on the front. You would expect if one of these riders was to attack, they would wait until the rider in front had done quite a long turn. And then they would try and hit them from behind. But let's see as we go through. Two cases to go. Stage one, Tour de Suisse last year where Marlene Reusser out-sprinted Damie Vollering when they were in this position. That's one sort of standout out-and-out sprint between these two. 1.8 kilometers to go as we get in towards the final twists and turns here in Oregon. And Vollering driving this one on the front. Marlene Reusser can be quite canny in this situation as well in terms of forcing Vollering through to the front. Not wanting to let that group come back. Not wanting to lose the podium here as well. In terms of the run-in, we go through a turn with 500 to go and a turn with around 400 to go and then line up for the finish. Yeah, it's quite a straightforward run-in towards the line now. We've just taken that right turn. They've got a few speed bumps to contend with inside the last kilometer of the race. And then as you mentioned, a right turn with 500 and then 400 meters to go. The crosswinds. A touch under eight and a half kilometers is the crosswinds for the riders. But it's fairly sheltered in Oregon. We sense now in the final kilometer that Marlene Reusser is just going to sit on the back. Demi Vollering flicks the elbow once, flicks the elbow twice. The universal symbol for it's time for you to come through. Marlene Reusser decides that she's got the armchair ride to the finish. She wants Demi Vollering to lead this one out. Lieke Neuen makes a last ditch attempt to try and get across to the breakaway. Or perhaps sweep up that third spot on the podium. But we've got track stands at the front as they start to look around. And Lieke Neuen will see this behind. Lieke Neuen's taking an absolute flyer from the group. They're gambling at the front. And Lieke Neuen is about to make contact. And she's just got to go absolutely all in and go over the top here. Lieke Neuen makes contact with the front. Lieke Neuen as Marlene Reusser and Demi Vollering looked around at each other. The Visma Lisa bike rider came over the top. Demi Vollering trying to come alongside Reusser on the other. Demi Vollering and Reusser. It still comes down to the two of them. Oh, the throw to the line. Marlene Reusser takes it. But Lieke Neuen. What a ride. Zoe Backstead leads in the group for four. Drama in the final kilometre here in Dwarfdorf-Landau. Demi Vollering and Marlene Reusser messing around at the front. Lieke Neuen makes contact. Takes the flyer and almost takes it.