It is not even March (yet) but that hasn’t stopped the pressure forming on teams that haven’t secured a win this season. Wiggle High5 can breathe a sigh of relief, however, after Belgian sprinter Jolien D’hoore secured their first victory of the seaon at the Omloop van het Hageland on Sunday.
D’hoore beat former Wiggle teammate Chloe Hosking to the line, with Sarah Roy (Orica-Scott Women) rounding out the podium.
“I felt really good today, and the team was really strong,” D’hoore said after the race.
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Wiggle had come up short in the previous day’s edition of the Women’s Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, with D’hoore finishing seventh and her teammate, Elisa Longo Borghini, claiming fifth. The Italian was in the thick of the action on Sunday and attacked several times. Her final assault came in the final kilometres and despite holding an advantage over the peloton she was caught inside the final 500 meters. Wiggle were not to be denied, however, and D’hoore edged out the competition to take a deserved victory.
“I was a little bit surprised by it, because of the race yesterday, but we went into the race with a plan. Elisa was on the attack, and I was in a breakaway once, and the other girls helped us amazingly, and in the end it all worked out.
“Elisa was going for the win,” D’hoore added. “The plan was that she attacked on the last climb of the last lap. She would go for the win, definitely, and I had to be there just in case we caught her back before the finish.”
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