Is that code for "impressive but boring"?
Kind of, to be honest.
There was a bit "when will something happen?" suspense until the first climb of the penultimate lap when
Annemiek van Vleuten accelerated, dropping everyone except
Elisa Longo Borghini,
Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig &
Anna van der Breggen - and then Van der Breggen counterattacked on that, and nobody was able to follow. By that point, the race for
was over.
The chasers didn't want to pull Van Vleuten along and were caught by the peloton, then attacks on the final climb formed the AvV-ELB duo and the group behind them.
