'The race is too fast for you to have doubt': Inside Demi Vollering's historic win at the Tour of Flanders

Oudenaarde, Belgium — Sunday, April 5Demi Vollering’s bike weaves from left to right and back again, fluttering forward with the haste of falling blossom.She is not riding this way from exhaustion — though her legs have been shutting down for a good few kilometres now. Nor is she navigating her way through cobbles. The pavé is some twenty minutes behind.Advertisement