World Championship 2025: Men’s ITT, September 21

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Yeah, they will race it at 50 kph because descents are very fast.

I mentioned you in the Pogacar thread. Do you still think this is the same as the Monaco time trial, which had an 8-kilometer climb and a long and technical descent? This time trial is more for specialists. It's no comparison.

The route isn't for climbers either. Apart from Mont Kigali, it's a route that Pedersen should be more competitive with than Vingegaard. Vingegaard, with his poor results in one-day races, wouldn't have been on the podium on this route.
 
Women went marginally faster on average than Tokyo, but for them Tokyo was only around 2/3rds the distance.

The men have relatively more climbing than the women, but they won't have the extra distance to cover compared to Tokyo.

50kph average seems very unlikely to me as the fastest guys typically don't go 7 kph faster than the fastest women, even on the same duration.

The best proxy for this is probably TdS 2023, when they did the same ITT on I believe the same day or 1 day apart, and Reusser went 42 kph average and Ayuso went 47.5 kph average
 
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1 hour 30 until one of the favourites for today, the big cosmonaut climber, hailing from the glorious nation of Individual Neutral Athletes 'Artem Nych' starts on a course that is surely good for him.

Hayter is a fool not riding this, I was getting progressively more irritated watching the women's race seeing how fast a course it was.
 
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The big battle is finally here today. The duel everybody has been waiting for. There's only two names that matter obviously.

Here are their starting times:

15h05:00: Ilan Van Wilder
15h52:30: Bruno Armirail
My god I forgot about this..normally not too interested in TTs but today I will drop everything I have planned, my money is on Armriail , he's flying this year!!
 
Women went marginally faster on average than Tokyo, but for them Tokyo was only around 2/3rds the distance.

The men have relatively more climbing than the women, but they won't have the extra distance to cover compared to Tokyo.

50kph average seems very unlikely to me as the fastest guys typically don't go 7 kph faster than the fastest women, even on the same duration.

The best proxy for this is probably TdS 2023, when they did the same ITT on I believe the same day or 1 day apart, and Reusser went 42 kph average and Ayuso went 47.5 kph average
Yeah. Probably around 49.
 

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