I like to keep my wheels on the ground.

Her next aim was the European cyclo-cross championship in Pont-Château France. She then travelled back to Holland for the national road championship in Maastricht. Aged 17 and a first-year junior Vos broke away in the final of five laps on the climb.

Vos added track racing world championships when Marianne Vos won the points race in 2008 and the scratch race in 2011. In the 2008 Summer Olympics Marianne Vos won the gold medal in the points race; in the 2012 Summer Olympics gold in the women's road race.