Demi Vollering spoke for the first time about her transfer saga after it was confirmed on Wednesday that she would be leaving SD Worx-Protime, stating that she was surprised by the statement made by her team in response to the news.
The team had kept questions to Vollering to sporting only as they unveiled an exhibition on the history of the team, held prior to the Tour of Flanders in Oudenaarde on Thursday, but Vollering did provide some light on the situation to Dutch media.
“I was a bit surprised by the team’s statement,” Vollering told NU.nl. “But I’m not going to talk about it too much now. There will be plenty of questions about my future in the near future.”
The statement to which she is referring was put out by the team during Dwars door Vlaanderen on social media, twitter.com, and said that Vollering and her management had been presented a “generous offer” which wasn’t responded to before a deadline, leading the team to assume she was leaving.
Team Manager Erwin Janssen clarified to Cyclingnews and GCN at the team’s pre-race press event that both Vollering and Lotte Kopecky were offered big extensions at the same time and the intention was to keep both.
