World Championships 2023: Women's TT (August 10)

[JosefK]

Happy to see Chloe return to the top in the ITT--it's been a long road back for her. I had expected Demi to be stronger today, but now she'll probably nuke the road race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Both gold winners crashed hard in the Giro, so that was clearly the best preparation

It's a shame we didn't get to see what Van Anrooij (and other interesting U23 riders who missed out) could have done today.

 

[FrontHeadlock]

What's the point of the mix relay? It's only purpose seems to be giving riders crashes before their big objectives later in the week, and I don't think I'm a unique in not watching or following it, and therefore being totally unaware that reusser crashed. Its a mickey mouse gimmick?

The point of any mixed event in the Olympic sports is to (i) funnel additional medals to countries that have more overall and traditional success in that sport (those countries often tend to perform consistently better in the women's events since there is less competition and variance in women's events) and (ii) to attempt to put men's and women's sports on some level of parity.

 

[RobertCrawley]

When you are re-thinking joining the dark side and having to wear the silly helmet

Podium

Interview

https://twitter.com/x/status/1689665946913263616

View: https://twitter.com/cyclist/status/1689665946913263616?s=20

What a great comeback by Dygert. The last few years, it wasn't clear that she would ever return to form. Wow, just amazing.

 

[theyoungest]

Happy to see Chloe return to the top in the ITT--it's been a long road back for her. I had expected Demi to be stronger today, but now she'll probably nuke the road race.

I wouldn't be too sure about that, she said she woke up with a headache and she just didn't have the power today.

Given how Kopecky is going I really don't see anyone beating her. The Dutch can try all they like, the best rider wins on this course.

 

[yaco]

I wouldn't be too sure about that, she said she woke up with a headache and she just didn't have the power today.

Given how Kopecky is going I really don't see anyone beating her. The Dutch can try all they like, the best rider wins on this course.

I like Lippert - Good bike handler and she can punch up the climbs.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Will Milesi hurt Guazzini if she doesn't get a medal?

She was already almost crying during the post-race RAI interview, so I hope not.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Still cannot quite believe Schweinberger actually won a medal. Nobody in Austria was paying attention to this race.

Funny how she always said that her twin sister Kathrin is better and stronger than her. I guess that has to do with Chistina being more of an introvert and less confident, while Kathrin is the more extroverted twin, with more self confidence.
Last year she already beat Kiesenhofer in the NC ITT and if you beat her at her best in an ITT you're probably top 10 in the world.

 

[Filippo_3467]

I think we shouldn't expect the Women RR to be a re run of the Men's. With this still relatively easy course (if you count climbing) there's a real chance that a group get's away and Vollering/Kopecky look at each other.

It didn't happen last Sunday because 2-3 Teams (especially Denmark) decided that the finale starts with 120 km to go and so every nation that counted on attacking early was completely F#cked by the second round.

Lippert is a good shout for a medal, but I think Niedermaier is a real dark horse for this race. She won at the Giro Donne but Netherlands and Belgium won't worry too much if she goes up the road.

 

[KZD]

Big result for Dygert, these Championships mark her return to cycling's best with the individual pursuit and time trial gold.

Grace Brown with a great second place and Schweinberger was the surprise of the race in third.

A shame that Reusser was not able to perform because of her injuries.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Big result for Dygert, these Championships mark her return to cycling's best with the individual pursuit and time trial gold.

Grace Brown with a great second place and Schweinberger was the surprise of the race in third.

A shame that Reusser was not able to perform because of her injuries.

According to Reusser it wasn't due to injury, but instead a matter of mental exhaustion after a hard block of training and racing.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

I like Lippert - Good bike handler and she can punch up the climbs.

I like Lippert too, but this finish won't favour her in a sprint with Kopecky like the Tour stage did, so she'd need to get away and I don't see a group forming where all of those who can outsprint her at the end will be gone. The main thing she would have in her favour would be that Kopecky will be comparatively isolated because the Belgian women's scene is not as deep as the Dutch or the German, and the Dutch are the Dutch; the Italians have tended to be quite good at picking a plan for who they plan to take to triumph and getting the riders to execute it, like they did with Guderzo, Bronzini and Balsamo, while the Dutch have so many weapons that they kind of get paralysis of choice and end up not committing to any one rider and winning far less than their on paper strength suggests.

Again in recent years they have got away with their follies a few times simply because of the riders being so strong that it overcomes any tactical errors, but there's almost always a Baku or Tokyo in recent memory to point to.

 

[Izzyeviel]

According to Reusser it wasn't due to injury, but instead a matter of mental exhaustion after a hard block of training and racing.

We don't actually believe that do we?

 

[Sciatic]

Quite a good TT performance from Labous. Not bad for someone who isn't a time trialler.

Will be interested to watch her performance in the RR; she was climbing really well at the end of Le Tour Femmes, but of course these punchy climbs in Glasgow are completely different than ascending the Tourmalet!

 

[search]

We don't actually believe that do we?

it sounds more believable than due to injury to me. She didn't look in physical pain, and going by the time it took for Brown to get past her (over a minute), Reusser's time was still competitive at this point, at least.

 

[search]

Lippert is a good shout for a medal, but I think Niedermaier is a real dark horse for this race. She won at the Giro Donne but Netherlands and Belgium won't worry too much if she goes up the road.

she only started training again two week ago, and as far as I understood, mainly (or only even) on the time trial bike, due to her injury. I would think it's unlikely that she is up for it yet.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We don't actually believe that do we?

I can't see why we shouldn't believe it. It would have been pretty easy for her to blame it on the crash, and no one would have asked any questions if she had.

 

[Zoetemelk-fan]

Now that was the full watch worth it!

 

[IndianCyclist]

We don't actually believe that do we?

The mental exhaustion probably caused the crash and injury. She was pretty much bandaged so could not have been easy sleeping and training. Considering that she was pulling most of the time in the TDFF, she should be burn out and fatigued. And then everything became too much at the TT when she was not performing to her standards.

 

[awavey]

The mental exhaustion probably caused the crash and injury. She was pretty much bandaged so could not have been easy sleeping and training. Considering that she was pulling most of the time in the TDFF, she should be burn out and fatigued. And then everything became too much at the TT when she was not performing to her standards.

But arguably she was performing to her best standards when she stopped, she might not have won a medal considering the rest of the field, but it wasn't from the interview she's given her saying she was physically so fatigued and so not hitting the time targets or goals or couldnt have finished it physically and set a representative time.

She said her head just wasn't in it, as it hadn't been all championships (and she helped win one race with that mindset) she just didn't want to ride the TT and had no desire to do it anymore.

That's mental exhaustion, stress related style depression as she talks about that cycle of focusing/prepping like for an exam, the stress of the event itself and then the elation relaxation post event, and she's not completing the unwind relaxation bit before pitching back into more focus/prep/stress. She needs a break away from the bicycle.

 

[Wyndbrook]

We don't actually believe that do we?

I always count her as one of smallish group of riders who are open and honest, and say it as it is.

 

[jaylew]

But arguably she was performing to her best standards when she stopped, she might not have won a medal considering the rest of the field, but it wasn't from the interview she's given her saying she was physically so fatigued and so not hitting the time targets or goals or couldnt have finished it physically and set a representative time.

She said her head just wasn't in it, as it hadn't been all championships (and she helped win one race with that mindset) she just didn't want to ride the TT and had no desire to do it anymore.

That's mental exhaustion, stress related style depression as she talks about that cycle of focusing/prepping like for an exam, the stress of the event itself and then the elation relaxation post event, and she's not completing the unwind relaxation bit before pitching back into more focus/prep/stress. She needs a break away from the bicycle.

Realized she wasn't going to win and maybe not even the podium. The mental exhaustion certainly didn't affect her today

Reusser’s position with her head down is quite something. Does she have a mirror hidden in the bar extensions so she can see where she’s going?

I used to race aginst a guy who used a mirror set up during tts so he could keep his head down.