Marlen Reusser will remain with SD Volks until the end of 2024, the Dutch WorldTour team announced Saturday, renewing the contract with the top Swiss racer for a third consecutive year.

Reusser, 31, joins SD Volks from the Ale BTC Ljubljana team in 2022 and has now signed a new one-year contract.

In a press statement on the contract news, the team revealed that Reusser's 2024 season will focus on the Olympic time trial, an event in which he won a silver medal in Tokyo in 2021.

However, Reusser is looking to build on his achievements in the spring classics, including a win in Ghent-Wevelgem this year and a seventh place in Flanders.

After the Olympics, Reusser will be aiming for the time trial at the World Championships in his native Switzerland.

In the same press release, Reusser himself confirmed that after next spring, he will focus entirely on racing against the clock for the rest of the season. First there will be the time trial at the Paris Olympics, and then I will focus on the time trial at the World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, in September. Those will be my two main goals."

Regarding his contract extension, Reusser said that he is still learning how to perform better, but that he has already learned a lot since joining SD Worx at the end of 2021, with a notable high point being his victory in the gravel stage of the Tour de France.

"We've learned a lot.

"We are very happy with Marlen," sport manager Danny Stamm said in the same statement. 'It's great to see how she's developing in the Classic. She is stepping up in this area by improving tactically."

"We are very pleased with the progress she is making.

." Besides the win at Ghent-Wevelgem, she has been a major contributor to the team's success in other classics this spring." SD Volks has dominated the Classics this year with Demi Vollering, Lorena Wiebes, Lotte Kopecky, and Reusser. After dominating Amstel Gold and La Flèche Wallonne, Volering is also the leading favorite to win Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège.

"Next year, after the Spring Classics, Maren can completely focus on time trials.

"Next year, after the Spring Classics, Maren can focus entirely on time trials.