When two team-mates go to war

SD Worx pair tussle for Strade Bianche honours in Piazza del Campo

-  Adam Becket

Unlike the famous Bernard Hinault-Greg LeMond moment atop Alpe d’Huez in 1986, there was no doubt that the two SD Worx team-mates, Demi Vollering and Lotte Kopecky, were racing against each other in the closing stages of Strade Bianche last Saturday.

The pair came together on the final gravel sector, Le Tolfe, when Kopecky attacked out of a group of favourites and bridged to Vollering, who had attacked a few kilometres earlier; they went on to pass the lone leader Kristen Faulkner (Jayco-AlUla) on the final climb into Siena’s Piazza del Campo.