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Important roads in and around Arnhem, Otterlo and Hoenderloo are reported to close on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October because a stage of the Eneco Tour will take place in the region. Road users are advised to take the closures into account.
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Parts of Loevesteinlaan, Vreeswijkstraat and Zuiderpark in The Hague will be closed next Tuesday for the Eneco Tour, a multi-day cycling race taking place at Zuiderpark. The closures are scheduled from 10:00 until midnight.
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The Eneco Tour, a Dutch road cycling stage race, is being held from Monday through Sunday as the road season nears its end. The event includes a women’s edition for the first time and features a combined prologue under artificial light. Organisers said they want to introduce innovations, although the international cycling federation does not support all of their proposals.
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Lieke Nooijen won the women’s 3.1-kilometre prologue in Zuiderpark in The Hague, eight seconds ahead of Charlotte Kool and Lonneke Uneken. Jakob Söderqvist won the men’s prologue, with Wessel Mouris 0.75 seconds behind and Christophe Laporte third. The women and men started in alternating groups on the same course. Sandrine Tas then won the women’s 79.5-kilometre opening road stage in Ede in a sprint ahead of Kool and took the overall lead from Nooijen. One report said Kool was severely impeded in the sprint. Talia Appleton and Faribi Hashimi had formed a breakaway of more than two minutes before being caught shortly before the finish.