Despite several breakaway attempts, it was written in the stars that the final day would come down to a sprint. And so it did. Veenhoven was well-positioned for much of the finale but lost a few places coming out of the final corner. Tenth place was the best she could manage.

“It was a super chaotic circuit”, Veenhoven said afterwards. “The pace was really high. My teammates did a great job keeping me near the front, which meant we were never really in trouble. In the final, we just lacked a bit of power to fully execute our plan. I was in a good position, but I lost some ground in that last turn. I had the feeling there was more possible than tenth place, but that’s part of sprinting. As a team, we’ve really improved over the past few days. We’ll take the lessons we’ve learned here into the next races.”