Pieters victorious at Dwars door Vlaanderen Amy Pieters claimed her second consecutive victory at the women?s Dwars door Vlaanderen (GP Waregem), beating her Liv-Plantur teammate Floortje Mackaij in a two-up sprint. The pair had distanced their breakaway companion Else Belmans (Austoglas Wetteren CT) with 25 kilometres remaining. The peloton were closing in quickly on the leaders but it was too late and the Liv-Plantur riders sprinted against each other for the victory, with Pieters coming up trumps. Christina Siggaard (Matrix Fitness) won the bunch sprint nine seconds later.ADVERTISEMENT ?We tried to make it an aggressive race so we kept pushing for the small breakaways. In the end it was very small, with just Floortje and I! Even after a good training yesterday I still felt good today and it was a nice team performance,? Pieters said. Mackaij added: ?I was feeling good today and have been since winning on Sunday. I spoke with Amy in the race and we were both really up for it. With 25km to go I jumped in the crosswinds with Amy on my wheel and we got a gap straight away. From then on we just pushed on and ended up just us two. In the sprint at the end Amy was a bit stronger but it is good that every race now I am getting better and stronger.? You can read more at Cyclingnews.com

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