Demi Vollering will leave SD Worx-Protime after this season

Update Demi Vollering will leave SD Worx-Protime at the end of 2024. Sports director Danny Stam confirmed this to GCN prior to Dwars door Vlaanderen. “That’s for sure, it’s a budget issue,” he acknowledges.

SD Worx-Protime recently extended the contract with world champion Lotte Kopecky and then people around the best women’s team in the world already hinted at a departure of Tour de France Femmes winner Vollering.

“Everyone knows that Lotte Kopecky has signed a contract until 2028 and we have tried to keep the team together, but as far as Demi is concerned we will not succeed,” said Stam. “You have to make choices as a team and at a certain point something or someone can leave. But I think it is clear that we cannot keep two riders of that level in our team.”

There was already a rumor in the corridors that UAE Team ADQ, the women’s team of UAE Emirates, would like to attract Demi Vollering with an annual salary of one million euros. 27-year-old Vollering has been driving for SD Worx since 2021, after completing her first professional kilometers at Parkhotel Valkenburg in the previous years.

In a statement on social media, Erwin Janssen, team manager of SD Worx-Protime, responds to the news reported by Danny Stam. “We made Demi a generous offer and indicated that this could be responded to before a certain date. Vollering’s management has not responded to this,” says Janssen.

“That is why we assume that Vollering will leave the team at the end of the year. But the reports that we recently spoke to Demi or her management about this are not true.”