Remco Evenepoel seeks today what no one has achieved in the history of cycling in the Montreal World Championship time trial
After hosting the celebration ofl Quebec Grand Prix and Montreal Grand Prixhim, Canada makes the plenary session with the dispute of the World Cycling Championship, which will have the participation of nearly a thousand runners from all over the world, a list in which there are notable absences such as those of Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard or Richard Carapaz. For a week, the Canadian city will host the road, time trial and relay cycling events in the Elite, Sub23 and Junior categories, both men and women. In total, there are 13 world titles at stake.
The competition, as usual, starts today with the Elite women’s and men’s individual time trials and will continue for eight days until the Elite road tests are held on Saturday, September 26 and Sunday, September 27, respectively. The World Cup event will begin at full speed, first with the women’s ITT (from 3:00 p.m.), and then the men’s (6:45 p.m.).
the switzerland Marlen Reusser and the belgian Remco Evenepoel They defend the titles they won last year in Kigali (Rwanda) and the men’s and women’s events are held on the same route and over the same distance: 39.2 kilometers. The route is spectacular and promises strong emotions. It does not have long straights, several tight and technical curves dot the course. There will be three intermediate time shots before the finish line that will give an idea of the performance of the riders and, for F1 lovers, the route goes into the Gilles Villeneuve Formula 1 circuit.
Evenepoel’s feat is achieved
When making the pools, a safe bet is to Remco Evenepoel. The 26-year-old Belgian is seeking his fourth consecutive world title in the time trial discipline. If he achieved this, he would make history and equal at the top Fabian Cancellara and Tony Martinbut Remco would be the first to do it in a row. A priori, two of his greatest rivals would be the Italian Filippo Ganna and the Swiss Stefan Küng. Spain will be represented by Pablo Castrillo and Iván Romeo. The company is difficult. Spanish cycling has not won the CRI gold since Abraham Olano in 1998.
