# Demi Vollering on her pro cycling debut and world champion dream

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- Source language: Dutch
- Target language: English
- Duration: 2:18
- Published: 2026-08-14
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## Transcript

[0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=16) This is my first year, so to speak, racing as a professional.

[0:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=19) And I’ve simply trained really hard for it.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=22) But that it would turn out this way, and so quickly, that’s really amazing.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=30) Twenty-two-year-old Demi Vollering makes an incredibly strong debut at the highest level.

[0:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=34) In her first spring with the pros, she already won the Vuelta Limburg Classic and the Berkelse rider finished third in the grueling classic Liège–Bastogne–Liège.

[0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=43) I won the sprint of the group I crossed the finish line with, so to speak.

[0:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=47) And I won that sprint. And suddenly I thought, “Huh?”

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=53) I think there were only two riders ahead. So I said to the soigneuses, “There were only two ahead, right? So, am I third now?”

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=60) That’s how I was feeling. So, yes, it really was.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=64) I didn’t quite understand it yet, so to speak.

[1:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=66) And now? Not entirely yet. When I have that medal in my hands, then I think: yes, it is Luik-Bastenaken-Luik, after all. That really is something special.

[1:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=77) Of course, my peak moment was really in the spring, so I'm a little more on the tired side now.

[1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=84) But I'm still getting better. I'm certainly still learning the game better and getting to know it, so I think I'm getting better all the time.

[1:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=101) I'd really love to become world champion one day, but I think every female cyclist has that dream.

[1:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=106) But is it realistic? I think it is. But it's not realistic for every female cyclist.

[1:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=112) No. Well yes, I think it is, if the course suits me.

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=117) Because, of course, it's somewhere different every year.

[2:02](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=122) If it's simply my kind of course, then I think I should manage it one day I think.

[2:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/DmQlMHDHACBu/en/demi-vollering-on-her-pro-cycling-debut-and-world-champion-dream?t=125) And that doesn't have to be now or next year. That can always happen later, of course.