World Championship 2025: Men’s ITT, September 21

[Krzysztof_O]

Trade off. Extra effort on the flat means worse result on the climbs.

Yeah, especially at the Tour one year ago it seemed to me that Pog went too hard on the first flat section (he was very close to Evenepoel) and started losing time later on that hill. He needs to manage his efforts on the first flattish section well, not try to match Evenepoel at all costs. Same goes for climbs actually (not to overkill it).

 

[Berniece]

I think this too. There's no time difference between Rwanda and Europe, so as long as he leaves Canada pretty quickly he should be fine.

As expected he already left yesterday evening. Gave an interview at the airport

 

[solo80k]

The God King gets what the God King wants.

No flat sections, high altitude... I see no challengers against Pogacar here.

 

[SafeBet]

Really curious about Vine's performance, assuming he can stay on his bike for the whole TT.

 

[Krzysztof_O]

The God King gets what the God King wants.

No flat sections, high altitude... I see no challengers against Pogacar here.

Any non-technical section with a very shallow gradient (positive or negative) should be good for Evenepoel, given his aerodynamics.

 

[Berniece]

Any non-technical section with a very shallow gradient (positive or negative) should be good for Evenepoel, given his aerodynamics.

Due to the higher altitude it won't help him as much though. But there are around 18km's of shallow gradients in this ITT

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Due to the higher altitude it won't help him as much though. But there are around 18km's of shallow gradients in this ITT

It's also true that those sections should be time-weighted not distance-weighted i.e. 18 km sections favouring Evenepoel and 8 km sections favouring Pogacar could have similar total duration.

 

[Berniece]

It's also true that those sections should be time-weighted not distance-weighted i.e. 18 km sections favouring Evenepoel and 8 km sections favouring Pogacar could have similar total duration.

Yeah indeed, it's going to be close. I hope, that would give us the most fun race

 

[Red Rick]

None of the climbing should be particularly slow. And Pogacar doing the MTT on a roadbike is a bit of a red flag for me in regards to his affinity for his TT bike.