World Championship 2023: Men’s TT (August 10)

[Mcgrave]

Remco has bigger fish to fry at this point of his career. In Championship races that's basically the Olympics where he could try to win both the RR and the TT already next year.

@Red Rick, can we now conclude that Remco doesn't have any weakness in TTs over 30-35km?

Offcourse, but he said this week he wants to collect all 6 jerseys, today he claimed the fifth one so only to do is UEC Road race champion.

 

[RedheadDane]

Milesi probably quite happy that Tarling is riding today, and not yesterday.

And by "yesterday", I obviously meant Wednesday.

 

[Riek s]

Craddock lawson needed to push 418W on average to loose 2min36. Probably higher numbers than what Remco pushes. (or what aero advantage brings..)

 

[Nick2413]

Maybe even more impressive is that Tarling setup isn't yet the best he could have had. HIs handlebars are not yet custom like the others.

Lovely picture

Is that some sort of bracelet he’s wearing?

 

[kingjr]

Is that some sort of bracelet he’s wearing?

That +a ring on each hand and a necklace, he seems to like his accessories.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Is this his daughter or his girlfriend?

As long as she isn't both.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Interesting... Josh 'Mr T' Tarling

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Wonder why Vingo didn't show up to Worlds? After his TT in the TdF, you'd think he would be eager to show off his form.

 

[red_flanders]

Just saw the Ganna post-race interview. Said it was one of his best performances ever, but "Remco is Remco", so "nothing to say". That certainly adds to the prestige of the win if he's beating Ganna in that form.

 

[Barnacle Bill]

Also saw this comment in the CN piece:

"I've never done a performance like today - I need to find a solution to try to compare with Remco," Ganna said. "At the moment I think everyone knows he is the man. I need to fight for a long time because he is the future - he has a lot of time to win the jersey and he is here with the jersey."
...
With the Paris Olympics coming closer on the horizon, Ganna now has a puzzle to work out in how to beat Evenepoel - he only mentioned aerodynamics as the only possible area to improve upon.
"In performance, it would be hard, the numbers are really high," he said. "I think we will try to find new equipment or try to train myself to roll the shoulders because if you see [Remco] from the front you see a big difference."

 

[Gigs_98]

Also saw this comment in the CN piece:

Ganna has the big advantage that Remco is almost certainly doing the TdF for gc next year and (if the schedule is like usually) will have the road race in his legs. So Ganna might be able to have a better preparation for the Olympic TT.

 

[red_flanders]

Wonder why Vingo didn't show up to Worlds? After his TT in the TdF, you'd think he would be eager to show off his form.

Fear. Fear of the Belgian Bullet.

 

[Jagartrott]

Among the spectators

A true Brit. Awful clothing and lobster red face (from the Scottish sun).

 

[peterfin]

Let's not make it out as if he's on his very own level in this regard. The age differences between Michael Rogers' first win, Ganna's first win, and Remco's win today are negligible.

Also, he's won three out of the six time trials he has done this season. A hit rate of 50 percent is, by all means, incredibly impressive, but it's disingenuous to say that he's won about every time trial he's participated in this year.

You are right about the stats but the 2 TT's in Switzerland were after a long break due to Covid and during the NC TT he crashed badly. Rather than looking at his wins, I find his consistency impressive and not matched by anyone of the current generation. You can basically be sure that he ends on the podium.

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau Remco! The "Aero-skin" wins again! Tarling was a surprise - "plucky Brit does well!" as it used to be phrased. At only 19 years old, it was the day's stand out performance. Pogacar confirmed he needs a good holiday.

 

[Volderke]

No. No Roglic, No Jonas, No Kuss, No Froome.

You almost got me thinking you were serious after I read roglic and Jonas…

 

[KZD]

Ganna has the big advantage that Remco is almost certainly doing the TdF for gc next year and (if the schedule is like usually) will have the road race in his legs. So Ganna might be able to have a better preparation for the Olympic TT.

Next year it won't be like that. Time trial will be on Sunday, 27th of July, presumably one week after the Tour ends so maybe Remco is still a bit fatigued from that and then the road race in the next Saturday.

However given that it will be a flat 32k TT, I think Ganna will have to worry about Tarling and Küng too.

 

[peterfin]

Next year it won't be like that. Time trial will be on Sunday, 27th of July, presumably one week after the Tour ends so maybe Remco is still a bit fatigued from that and then the road race in the next Saturday.

However given that it will be a flat 32k TT, I think Ganna will have to worry about Tarling and Küng too.

Remco said that for a top TT being fresh is crucial while for the RR it helps to have the basic fitness and race hardness of a GT in the legs. He said that this is probably the main difference between his performance at the WC this year and last year. So I think he knows he can't be top at the OC TT.

 

[CHGJ2000]

Ever since Wout miraculously grew two centimeters overnight at the age of 29 and thereby changed his position he's been subpar in just about every tt.

Wout "grew" and was added to the 1.90m+ list at 24 in May 2019. All his good TT results are after that.

 

[King Boonen]

That +a ring on each hand and a necklace, he seems to like his accessories.

I believe the kids call it 'drip'.

 

[robtmitchell]

Anyone know what wheels, tires (clincher or tubeless) and air pressure used By the top 3?