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It was billed in some quarters as a race between the pre-eminent seven, but in the end the winner of the women’s road race World Championships was a rider very, very few people even expected would feature in the top-10.
It’s understandable therefore that the victor, Canada’s Magdeleine Vallieres, was in shock after winning the mountainous 165km race by 23 seconds from New Zealand’s Niamh Fisher-Black. Spain’s 41-year-old Mavi García was third.
“It’s great win here and with the Worlds next year in Montreal, it’s perfect. It was my dream to win, and now it’s come true – it’s crazy.”
“I’ve been dreaming about it for a while now – it was a big goal of mine for this year so I prepared well and at altitude,” she revealed.
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