Marieanne Vos said that she just decided to go after she took the victory on stage four of Women's Tour in Stoke On Trent.
Vos said:We were riding full gas and we could see them but they were attacking each other so sometimes they were making really high speeds and sometimes it came closer and then the final kilometre was more up than I expected,” said Vos afterwards.
"On Google Maps it looked a wide road and nicely through some roundabouts but it went 'boom' uphill but they were still within 10-seconds, so I decided to just go because otherwise you don't have a chance.
"I knew I had a chance in the sprint but if there are still four in the lead then you are sprinting for fifth and that wasn't really in my plan today.”
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