NEWSFLASH: TEAM SUNWEB'S ELLEN VAN DIJK SOLOS TO THE DWARS DOOR VLAANDEREN VICTORY
Ellen van Dijk has taken the Dwars door Vlaanderen win, after shaking off her late-breakaway companions to ride a six kilometre solo effort to the finish.
Speaking of the win, Ellen said: "Today was a great race for the team. It's really great to see how we turned things around after our bad luck this season. Today was really a textbook race, and we did everything that we had planned to. The girls were always really well positioned and setting a hard pace on the climbs. Me and Floortje were in the 7-rider break and with 20 kilometres to go we just attacked and attacked, maybe 10 times in total. With 6 kilometres to go Floortje attacked, and I went directly after. I opened up a gap and gave it everything I had. The win is a great way to finish this perfect team work and with Floortje also finishing 3rd, the day couldn't have gone any better. It gives us good confidence with Sunday in our minds."
