'You're never confident in a sprint against Vos' says Lizzie Deignan after defeating Dutch triple threat at La Course

Deignan and team-mate Elisa Longo Borghini pulled off perfect tactics to beat both Vos and world champion Annemiek van Vleuten

Lizzie Deignan wins La Course 2020 (Christophe Petit Tesson/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

(Image credit: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Lizzie Deignan says she wasn't confident of beating Marianne Vos in the sprint finish of La Course, but the Brit combined perfectly with team-mate Elisa Longo Borghini to overcome the Dutch triple threat of Vos, world champion Annemiek van Vleuten and Demi Vollering to take the win.

"You're never confident in a sprint against Marianne Vos. Elisa played it perfectly," Deignan said after her victory. "If you want to beat Marianne you have to force her to make a mistake. And Elisa just kept pulling so that we were sure that we had the time gap. She was incredibly strong today and totally sacrificed herself for me.

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Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.

I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.

Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).

I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the producers make the programme and other times I'd be getting the lunches. Just in case you were wondering - Phil Liggett and Paul Sherwen had the same ham sandwich every day, it was great.