The Road Cycling World Championship, held in the city of Wollongong in Australia, about 80 kms. of Sydney in the state of New Wales, it begins the following morning with two select individual time trial eventsthe female to open the competition and the male to close the first day of racing.
They will be the first two tests of a program of eleven between Sunday, September 18 and 25an exciting week that culminates in the star races, the elite long-distance road races, on Saturday the 24th for the women and the 25th for the men.
Among the displays of the absolute category, there will also be trials against the clock and on the line for juniors and sub-23s, almost always on an urban circuit where the races will take place and which for the first time will be the same for in women and men in the elite time trial
A total of 34.2 kilometers full of curves in two laps of the 17.1 km circuit. showing the ascent of Mount Ousley, a slope of one km. up to an altitude of only 53 meters, as the most important difficulty.
in men’s forecasts point to regulars on the podium in recent years, mainly the champion of the last two editions, the Italian Filippo Gannaassumed to be in stiff competition with Belgian Remco Evenepoel, recent winner of the Vuelta a España and the time trial in Alicante that defined the race.
Also the Belgian Wout van Aert, silver in both Imola and Flanders in the last two editions of the World Cup, will not appear in the ITT. Evenepoel was silver in 2019 in Yorkshire and bronze last year in his country.
The other important candidate is the Slovenian Tadej Pogacar, who wants to make up for his defeat in the Tour de France, the Swiss power couple consisting of Stefan Kung -bronze in 2020 in Italy- and Stefan Bissegger, always one of the best in this type of dating, and perhaps the promising British Ethan Hayter. Oier Lazkano, from Vitoria, the only Spanish representative, will try to survive until the last European Championship, where he is fifteenth.
The candidates for the podium in the women’s race are also clear, with the Dutch Ellen Van Dijkgold in 2021, and the dominator of the season, Movistar rider Annemiek van Vleuten, current Olympic champion of the specialty, world champion in 2017 and 2018 and this year winner of the Giro, Tour and Vuelta, are the great references.
Belgian Lotte Kopecky and Swiss Marlen Reusser are also expected to be in the classification.this place in 2020 and 2021 and also the Olympic runner-up.
Sandra Alonso, from Alicante, 22nd in the European Championship, and Lourdes Oyarbide, also from Alava, with World Cup experience, will try to defend the pavilion as much as possible and thus provide first aid to a Spanish team that arrived in Wollongong after a long journey of about 30 hours.
Source: La Verdad
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