00:00It's a fantastic opportunity for them as they now get underway and it's going to be a hot
00:09race all throughout.
00:10Yeah, fascinating to hear Polly Ferran Prevo about whom we will be watching with great
00:15interest and no doubt chatting about her fortunes through the week and also her expected.
00:23Certainly and for three riders of every race you've always got riders who are representatives
00:28of the CPA so they're looking out for the safety protocol and also extreme weather protocols
00:34so here at the race you've got Mavi Garcia, Milena D'Souza and Soraya Paladin who are
00:38all the representatives.
00:39There is also becoming better known, a bigger star, more famous and that's to the ultimate
00:44benefit of the...
00:45Quick wave, no?
00:46Not getting a wave?
00:47It's the ultimate benefit.
00:48I'm going to hate that racing up and down a motorway, you know to within millimetres
00:55and half a second exactly whether your advantage is going up.
00:58We were expecting in the Dubai Harbour, we are around that final corner, we are inside
01:03the final 750 metres and it's SD Works Pro Time on the front.
01:07They have two riders remaining ahead of Lorena Wiebes in third wheel in that white jersey.
01:12There's been a crash behind in the peloton but at the front we are still sprinting with
01:16SD Works Pro Time and now it is the turn of Lorena Wiebes to launch her sprint.
01:21100 metres to go, Wiebes is on the front in that white jersey as European champion about
01:25to take another victory here in the Dubai Harbour followed by Kohl but it is Wiebes
01:30that takes the win, opening stage of the 2025 UAE Tour for women and the win has gone to
01:37SD Works Pro Time and European champion Lorena Wiebes.
01:42Men's patience there, the sprint's proper on now and it looked like for a moment I thought
01:46she might have left it a bit late but the minute she launched she was a bike lane clear.
01:50She was and Charlotte Kohl went early, she did go early.
01:54Look at this, Nienke Veenhoven, the young Dutch rider, the 20-year-old coming out fast
01:58on Charlotte Kohl.
02:00Brilliant performance from Wismar-Liesebaek and I have to say top job from Pauline Fermpreveau,
02:04a first stage race back after many, many years away from the professional road peloton.
02:09Placed her well along with Fidanza.
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