While SD Worx teammate Ashley Moolman Pasio has announced her retirement from cycling after the 2022 season, Chantal Van den Broeck-Braak has made the decision to withdraw her impending retirement and renew her contract through the end of the 2024 season SD Works also announced that Demi Volering has extended her contract through 2024.

At the team's preseason presentation on Wednesday, van den Broeck-Blaak said that circumstances have changed since she made her initial decision to stop riding in 2020 and that doubts have arisen as her retirement date approaches.

"When I made the decision to stop cycling in 2020, I was super clear about it and 100% supportive," she said. I needed a little more of a challenge, and I'd already been racing for so long." [And it was a pretty tough time for me because my husband, Lars, had burnout. I stopped. Enough is enough."

"But then the family situation changed. Lars recovered and I really enjoy riding my bike. I enjoy every day. I am still at a good level. I can still train hard, mentally and physically."

"So as the dates got closer, it got harder and I felt like I wasn't ready. Like Ashley said, you need to feel ready. So we started talking about it at home and my husband and I went to see SD Worx. And I told him I wasn't ready."

Team manager Danny Stamm said the team had hoped she would compete in the first Tour de France Femme this year before retiring, adding that he was pleasantly surprised to hear she wanted to continue with the team beyond 2022.

"Initially, we had hoped that Chantal would compete in this year's Tour de France. So we were surprised, but very happy with her offer to continue until the end of 2024." She has great value within the team. There are very few riders like her.

"Furthermore, she always has the team's best interests at heart, which makes her even more valuable. Last year she won the Strade Bianche. We respect Chantal's wish to have children. After that, it is also a challenge to bring her up to standard."

Van den Broeck-Braak said that after talking with her husband, family, and team, she decided to continue working.

"We discussed our desire to have children one day. We wondered, 'How, how can we do that?'"

"We were also thinking about the possibility of having a baby.

"So we went to SD Works with this story and we started talking about it. And actually, right from the beginning, they were directly super positive and happy about it. So we signed a contract until 2024."

"We have the full support of the team (racing and family). So if I'm lucky and everything turns out well, I can get pregnant, start a family, and then make a comeback, and the team will support me 100%.

"I'm very relieved and really happy. This says everything about the team. I'm at home here and I feel comfortable. I am happy here and they are happy with me."

With her new contract with SD Worx, Van den Broeck-Blarck will be celebrating her 35th birthday after completing her 17th season in the pro peloton. She has been with the team since 2015, when it was then known as Boels-Dolmans, and has racked up 21 major victories, including world championship road titles, the Tour of Flanders, Strade Bianche, and Gent-Wevelgem.

Van den Broeck-Braak will start the 2022 season next month at Strade Bianche, with the Tour de Flanders and Paris-Roubaix the major spring goals.

In addition to Van den Broeck-Braak's contract extension, Demi Vollering, just one year after joining from Parkhotel Valkenburg, will remain with the team through 2024. [Volering, who won La Course last season with Liege-Bastogne-Liege, said, "My contract is longer. Everything here feels good."

"It's important that the team trusts me and wants to stay with me for a long time. That means a lot. I'm on the best team in the world and I wouldn't want anything else."

Vollering will focus on the spring classics and the 2022 Tour de France femme with an eye toward the 2024 Paris Olympics.

"I want to be one of the best riders in the world for the 2024 Paris Olympics. I want to shine in the big races. I want to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France and I want to win the Tour. Like last year, I want to win the One-Day Classic, and I want to win the World Championships as well."

"I want to be one of the best riders in the world, and I want to be one of the best riders in the world.

She also aims to help the younger riders on the team, such as Niamh Fisher Black, Anna Shackley, and Blanca Cata Vas, continue to develop and inspire the next generation of cyclists.

"For example, we want to encourage everyone to have a healthy lifestyle with lots of outdoor activities. I also hope to inspire the next generation of [young] girls to take up cycling," she said.