Demi Vollering ‘surprised’ by SD Worx-Protime statement: “Not working on a farewell now”

Demi Vollering was ‘surprised’ by the statement that her SD Worx-Protime team released on Wednesday. She said this in conversation with NU.nl. In the aforementioned statement, Erwin Janssen, the team manager of SD Worx-Protime, discussed Vollering’s upcoming departure. He said that the team had made a ‘generous offer’ to the Dutch champion, but that the Dutch champion had not responded.

“I was a bit surprised by the team’s statement,” Vollering responded to NU.nl. “But I’m not going to talk about that too much now. There will be plenty of questions about my future in the near future. I want to focus on all the competitions to come this year, starting on Sunday with the Tour of Flanders. I’m not thinking about saying goodbye right now.”

On Wednesday, prior to Dwars door Vlaanderen, sports director Danny Stam was on GCN announced that Vollering will no longer drive for SD Worx-Protime in 2025. He said it was a ‘matter of budget’ that they could not keep Vollering on board. “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,” he referred to Vollering and Lotte Kopecky, who previously signed until the end of 2028.

In a statement, Erwin Janssen then responded to the news that Stam had released. “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. 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.”