European Championship 2025: Men’s ITT, October 1

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If Ganna doesn't win this time trial, it will be a tough blow for him. He's the right distance for him, he hasn't competed in the World Championships, and he's just preparing for this.

He's not as dominant as he seemed a few years ago. If he wins, it wouldn't be a surprise, but if he doesn't finish second, it wouldn't be a surprise either.

Soudal is doing some incredible time trials, aside from Remco. Van Wilder at the World Championships, and what Hayter did in Luxembourg in the second sector was impressive.

Ganna being beaten by Remco would be predictable, but against Hayter would be a major blow to him. It would put his second place as the best time trialist into question.
 
The 180 in public perception of Ganna has been absurd. He came six seconds off beating Evenepoel in last year's WC (his best major championship TT performance since 2021), had the strongest spring of his career, and then had his season derailed by a crash and concussion on the first stage of the Tour. Now quite a lot of people seem to be claiming that he's on a downward trajectory?
 
The 180 in public perception of Ganna has been absurd. He came six seconds off beating Evenepoel in last year's WC (his best major championship TT performance since 2021), had the strongest spring of his career, and then had his season derailed by a crash and concussion on the first stage of the Tour. Now quite a lot of people seem to be claiming that he's on a downward trajectory?
Ganna is what he is, a world class rider of the kind that would win heaps more in a bygone era.
 
The 180 in public perception of Ganna has been absurd. He came six seconds off beating Evenepoel in last year's WC (his best major championship TT performance since 2021), had the strongest spring of his career, and then had his season derailed by a crash and concussion on the first stage of the Tour. Now quite a lot of people seem to be claiming that he's on a downward trajectory?
Evenepoel was relatively bad during last year's WCC, also evident in the RR. Not enough rest/recovered after Tour/Olympics. Evenepoel also beat Ganna at the Olympics on a wet city course, which favoured Ganna, a week or so after he podium the Tour. He also beat Ganna the previous two years at the WCC, including Wollongong when Evenepoel came off a Vuelta win jetlagged and back in 2019 on both WCC and ECC. Ganna, as good as he is, has been overrated in 2020 and 2021 for obvious reasons.
 
They released the start times, complete list is here. I filtered it a bit for the more interesting riders.

15.57 uur – Rémi Cavagna
16.00 uur – Stefan Bissegger
16.01 uur – Alec Segaert
16.05 uur – João Almeida
16.06 uur – Daan Hoole
16.07 uur – Ethan Hayter
16.08 uur – Bruno Armirail
16.09 uur – Mads Pedersen
16.10 uur – Mathias Vacek
16.11 uur – Joshua Tarling
16.12 uur – Jakob Söderqvist
16.13 uur – Filippo Ganna
16.14 uur – Stefan Küng
16.15 uur – Remco Evenepoel
 
They released the start times

15.45 uur – Tahir Buğra Yiğit
15.46 uur – Ognjen Ilić
15.47 uur – Danny van der Tuuk
15.48 uur – Ilie Seremet
15.49 uur – Andréa Mifsud
15.50 uur – Arthur Kluckers
15.51 uur – Borislav Palashev
15.52 uur – Artem Nych
15.53 uur – Ahmet Can Akpinar
15.54 uur – Nelson Oliveira
15.55 uur – Dylan van Baarle
15.56 uur – Maximilian Walscheid
15.57 uur – Rémi Cavagna
15.58 uur – Niklas Larsen
15.59 uur – Lorenzo Milesi
16.00 uur – Stefan Bissegger
16.01 uur – Alec Segaert
16.02 uur – Alex Kirsch
16.03 uur – Miguel Heidemann
16.04 uur – Abel Balderstone
16.05 uur – João Almeida
16.06 uur – Daan Hoole
16.07 uur – Ethan Hayter
16.08 uur – Bruno Armirail
16.09 uur – Mads Pedersen
16.10 uur – Mathias Vacek
16.11 uur – Joshua Tarling
16.12 uur – Jakob Söderqvist
16.13 uur – Filippo Ganna
16.14 uur – Stefan Küng
16.15 uur – Remco Evenepoel
Just1minute gap between riders?

ed. Sorry for the redundancy ;)
 

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