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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 to 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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