{"id":179725,"date":"2025-06-13T00:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T00:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179725\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T00:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T00:29:09","slug":"marlen-reusser-was-incredible-shes-in-the-shape-of-her-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/179725\/","title":{"rendered":"Marlen Reusser was incredible&#8230; she\u2019s in the shape of her life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Marlen was incredible on the descent. At first, I didn\u2019t react immediately \u2014 I was like, let the others go first. But then I realized I needed to do it myself, so I jumped after her,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u1Um07tsshQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vollering reflected in a post-stage interview with Cycling Pro Net<\/a>, detailing the initial moments the move went away. &#8220;If you give Marlen too much space, you won\u2019t see her back. When I caught up, I thought, &#8216;Oh no, it\u2019s going to be a long way to the finish,&#8217; but we worked pretty well together, which was nice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn\u2019t feel so good today because of the heat, I think. When Marlen attacked in the last kilometre, I felt she still had a good punch, so I decided to wait for the sprint. But I think I went a bit too early and couldn\u2019t hold myself,&#8221; Vollering&#8217;s reflections continued. &#8220;Marlen had a really strong sprint \u2014 she really wanted to win. Honestly, I think she\u2019s in the shape of her life. I\u2019ve never seen her this strong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With the GC now looking like a fight between the former teammates, Vollering &#8211; now riding for <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclinguptodate.com\/fdj-suez\" title=\"FDJ - Suez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FDJ &#8211; Suez<\/a> &#8211; is well aware that every second could be vital. &#8220;I think it\u2019s going to be a battle for the bonus seconds,&#8221; she concludes. &#8220;There aren\u2019t very long climbs in this Tour, so every day there will be a bit of a fight to gain seconds everywhere. We\u2019ll see how it goes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Marlen was incredible on the descent. At first, I didn\u2019t react immediately \u2014 I was like, let the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-179725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114673232434285015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}