Back from hospital Wollongong (super support there🙏!). Stable fracture elbow, no surgery needed. I am allowed to ride my bike, but depends on pain and needs to be sensible. Hope I can sleep. At least I can already laugh about this picture 🤣😉⬇️
40h later ⬇️! Doctors
@Rijnstate
advised to start to walk and use the amount of pain as a guideline. I started y'day with 3 steps, today already meters! From advise in Roubaix hospital to stay 3 weeks horizontal in bed... to this! Off season looks way better now! 😎
Operation done. Everything fixed again: no bones flying around in my knee anymore 😉. My leg will be in a brace for at least 4 weeks. No bending of my knee, no walking, etc, so the bones can grow together again.
Not a 2022 happy end for me. Stupid crash. Just wanted to go to the finish safe... Result is broken pubic bone in 2 places and a long recovery staying in bed coming up. Bye bye holiday. Bye bye recharging. I have done this more often but energy is running out.
What a week with this team (+ many people behind the scenes not in this picture specially
@emmanorsgaard1
Lide chef Pepe Cebo Ibai Dani Manolet Oier Adolfo Gustavo Iñaki !! 💛💛💛
On my way to the hospital for x rays of my right side. All bruised and especially worried about my right elbow/arm. My front tire exploded and I crashed.
Winning and celebrating together is the best. The most beautiful part of targeting a stagerace for me is that you need a perfect team around you to achieve your goals, staff & riders gracias!!💓
This has to be the most wholesome moment of the 2022 season 🥹😊
@AvVleuten
had saved a Maglia Rosa / Ciclamino for every single member of the 🇮🇹
#GiroDonne22
team. Here’s the delivery ⬇️
Leader in values, and not only in results. 🎩
#MiekItHappen
Thanks people in Glasgow for your support!Never boring with me:had to stop 3 times today.😵💫Disappointed I could not race the final because of flat tire with 12km to go. Proud to say goodbye with racing the final with good legs and my fighting spirit. Congrats
@LotteKopecky
🌈!
Not the result I came for, but I gave all I had in this
@LeTourFemmes
. Very thankful for the whole
@Movistar_Team
family ánd very happy with the results of our team! Read more on my website:
#TDFF2023
📸: Getty Images
With my bike completely in Tokyo 🇯🇵 style, I am ready for the road race on Sunday. I look forward to wear the orange
@TeamNLtweets
and to fight for gold with the team. A preview, in Dutch, you can now read on my website:
Bus full with medallists! On our way to Scheveningen with the cyclists 🥇🥈🥈🥉 and our staff together with our rowers 🥇🥈. This evening also
@NOS
and
@HumbertoTan
Happy to have a good night of sleep after yesterday's rollercoaster ride of emotions.
Out of a situation where we were racing for 4th... I won my first Olympic medal. Training and staying at
@hotelinteralpen
did it's work again. 💪Time to look forward!
11.30-13.00 🇯🇵 /4.30-6.00🇳🇱
I had great legs today at the world championships in Glasgow 🏴 and had hoped to play a bigger role in the final, but a mechanical made that impossible. However, I am proud of how I rode and to wave goodbye like this. An update:
📸: Getty Images
So happy to take the win today in
@LiegeBastogneL
! 😄 What a way to end this spring, thanks to a fantastic
@Movistar_Team
. Read more about it, in Dutch:
📸: Sprint Cycling
Cool to see also
@WoutvanAert
winning yesterday! Noticed the same intrinsic motivation in my training partners in june in Livigno. 👌
So now it is your turn
@JashaStterlin
😅😉
What a great and also hard day it was. Very happy to win
@StradeBianche
again. Thanks to my team
@MitcheltonSCOTT
!
Read my story (in Dutch) on my website:
📸: Getty Images
Still can't believe it! Very special to win this beautiful hard race in Siena after an off season with knee injury. Surprised hard work payed off already today.🤗 Re-watch my attack at last gravel sector here:
What a great way to start the new season. Winning my first race in the rainbow jersey, the
@OmloopHNB
! My story, in Dutch, on my website:
📸:
@sportfotonl
Even
@AvVleuten
had a hard time on the challenging course today. Incredible she managed to keep such big time gaps despite this incident with just 12 km to go!
🎥 PMG Sport
#GiroRosa
After the world championships, I will race two more UCI-races in my career. I will start in the Tour of Scandinavia
@Battlenor
🇩🇰🇳🇴 and then end my career at home in the
@ladiestour
🇳🇱. An update (in Dutch):
📸: Getty Images
Ready for
@nocnsf
sportgala. Changing
@Movistar_Team
outfit for 🎉 outfit.
1.30pm finish in Madrid team presentation...
7pm ready to celebrate sport year together with athletes of the Netherlands!
With my hero on stage. Best moment for me. Super proud of my both parents. Always positive and full of energy to continue. And
@RiavanVleuten
is still going full gas 😎 (73 years young. ♥️)
From Queenstown 🇳🇿 2016... Catch up 6 years later in Livigno.
In 2016 I asked on Twitter who wanted me to join for a ride around Queenstown.
1 person showed up: 15 year young & super motivated
@reubentnzl
Cool to catch up again: Reuben signed a pro contract with
@GroupamaFDJ
🤩
Don't know what happened but looks the tire exploded after I did hit the side of the road. So that was not the problem. Something caused I got out of balance, but what ever caused it: it will not help or change my situation. Now in the hospital. 🤞🤞
Quite special to have 3
@WUR
students with a medal together. Ok...I finished already some years ago 🤓 but Femke Bol (communication science) and Emma Oosterwegel ('Bodem Water Atmosfeer') are still trying to combine study and sport together. RESPECT girls!
#Wageningen
Last last LAST all out session of my career done! Full gas tilll the last day of my career: full focus prologue training in Ede with the master of coaching. 🥳🎉🥵🤯😱🤬🤮🤮🤮 Nice way to finish it off on my golden
@canyon_bikes
with
@CoachLuicito
Time to change the kimono (and slippers) for my race suit. 🙃 Tomorrow 25th of july: 136km Olympic road race
@olympics2021
I have done everything to be here at my best possible level...so ready to race!
(🇳🇱=6AM 🇯🇵=1PM start)
Nice way to celebrate my birthday: in the sun in Italy 😍 with sightseeing trainingride and finish at the beach! First time for me in Sardegna but I will be back for sure!
Result 10 days racing, 6 stage wins, 1&3 in GC, points jersey, mountain jersey in
@GiroRosaCycling
.
Received today: €557,30 (We share in our team everything with 10 girls).
@UCI_cycling
maybe time to change the minimum pricemoney rules (are the same since I started in 2008).
Super proud to be part of such a strong Dutch team. Enjoyed it to work together 😁 today with
@AnnavdBreggen
to make the race hard. Proud also to be part of exciting race to watch! and update:
Very happy with my 4th wint in the Giro Donne 🇮🇹. What a team effort
@Movistar_Team
! I look back with a big smile on my face. An update about this Giro on my website:
📸: Getty Images
Still dreaming sometimes... Did this all really happen in 2022? 👇🥳🤗
Thanks to everyone that helped me to achieve my goals (
@Movistar_Team
and
@CoachLuicito
) and all my friends and family who were celebrating with me those nice moments! ❤️
🎥 VIDEO 🎥
Celebrations to start the day 🎉 Flavio gets the coffees in ☕️ DJ Roy plays some birthday tunes 🎶 and then it all comes crashing down 😔
#GiroRosa
Full Video ▶️
🗣☝️ If you’ve got four minutes to watch one of many post-race overview interviews from
@AvVleuten
after her
@LeTourFemmes
win, please look at this from
@gracieelvin
and
@SBSSportau
.
Best questions, and an ending that had us cutting onions 🥹💛
So happy for
@estecharu
especially after the hard time he has gone through last year. Best way to recover from a nice training is to see him winning today and see the happyness of his parents at the finishline.
#priceless
#bigsmile
My team 🤗 : complete commitment to the plan, perfect teamtactics. We used everyone today: leadouts into climbs, make it hard on the climbs and I could save my legs to put the hammer down from bottom La Redoute.
For the Strava nerds 😉 and to show women's cycling is improving so fast! In 2019 I went solo on La Redoute. Today with headwind 1st part 13sec faster! Roche aux Faucons also fastest time ever today. (my weight 2019=exact same now).
That feeling when you just finished your first High Intensity Training session (since
@Yorkshire2019
... ) and need to climb 1200m↗️ back to Manizales 🤣.
On my way to the
@LeTourFemmes
by bike! Ok only the first part 😉: leaving
@HotelInteralpen
descending Foscagno, climbing up Fluela pass and in Davos I jumped in the car with
@CoachLuicito
Best way to travel! 😎
In 2010 kreeg ik een Sinterklaas gedicht met de zin 'Van Vleuten gaat niet naar de kleuten' (dank Johan Lammerts voor de inspiratie 😂). Ik ging echter vandaag compleet naar de kleuten...maar bleef erin geloven.
Epic race!
We have won the
@Giro_Donne
🇮🇹 2022! Thanks to a great Movistar Team! I look forward celebrating it together this evening, with all riders and staff. My story, in Dutch:
📸:
@SprintCycling
I am happy to have renewed my contract with
@Movistar_Team
and to know that I will race with them until I end my career after the 2023 season. Read all about it (in Dutch) at my website:
After research in the Rijnstate hospital I know that I broke my pelvis in two places and also broke my shoulder. An update on my website (in Dutch):
📸:
@PhotoGomezSport
49.254km/hour! HUGE congrats
@ellenvdijk
new world hour record holder. So much respect! Must have been so hard to keep riding on the black line with the head down in that aero position. Also congrats to whole
@TrekSegafredo
support team and special shout out to
@BenjaminBruijn
Small note to Belgium cycling fans at Tenerife: not every 🌈 jersey you see here is
@EvenepoelRemco
🤣🤣🤣 My first days here I heard a lot of 'Remco' (so this video was not taken by people from Belgium 😉).
2017 4th
2018 3rd
2019 2nd
Bring on 2020! 🤣 Me and my
@MitcheltonSCOTT
team had a good day. Needed a bit more other girls/teams earlier in the race to make fast
@martabasti
tired 🤣 (congrats!). I tried everything+good legs:bring on Ardennes!