Cycling is a rollercoaster of emotions: Mara Roldan, a 21-year-old athlete from Picnic PostNL, knows this well, having gone from the joy of victory to a hospital bed in less than twenty-four hours. Competing in the recent Tour of Britain, the Canadian athlete had demonstrated her class by winning the second stage solo, but the following day she crashed, suffering a femur fracture. Mara has been operated on and, as her team reports, will face her recovery path supported and accompanied by her squad.

On the day of Roldan's victory,  Kim Le Court (at that time the general classification leader) and her teammate  Gladys Verhulst were also involved in crashes. While the Mauritian, though struggling, reached the finish line and decided not to start the next day, things went much worse for the French rider, who was found to have 8 rib fractures, a pneumothorax, and a fracture of the humeral head. This was communicated by the AG Insurance - Soudal Team.

A crash marked Barbara Guarischi's Tour of Britain: after falling in the third stage, the Italian did not suffer serious consequences but did not participate in the final stage, which concluded in Glasgow with the victory of her teammate Lorena Wiebes.