Road World Championships 2022 - Rider ratings: Remco Evenepoel leads Filippo Ganna in time trial field

16.09.2022 - 18:39 eurosport.com

What, no Wout? The Wollongong World Championships time trial takes place with one notable absentee from the startsheet. Belgian superstar Van Aert is still heading Down Under but, after a long hard season, has decided to put all of his eggs in the road race basket.

Ad That leaves the door open for his compatriot, Remco Evenepoel, who will look to add a rainbow jersey to the red one he acquired last Sunday in Madrid.

World ChampionshipsRoad World Championships: How to watch, full schedule and timesAN HOUR AGO The 17.1km circuit (which just as in the women's race, will be tackled twice) is far from pan-flat, so may suit a climber slightly more than a true specialist but there are no riders among the favourites who can't handle what the course can throw at it.

Ultimately the rainbow jersey and the medals will be decided by form. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — REMCO EVENEPOEL Only one rider is worthy of the five star treatment, and that is the name that has been on our lips for most of the last month — and likely will be for many years to come.

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A clash with his wedding means the newly crowned world champion will not show off his rainbow bands in the final Monument of the season. Fresh from scooping a famous Vuelta-Worlds double, Remco Evenepoel is not willing to change the date of his nuptials to add a second Monument win to his swelling palmares this year, the Belgian having won Liege-Bastogne-Liege back in April.

How to watch Filippo Ganna’s Hour Record attempt on Saturday as Ineos Grenadiers rider looks to make history

Filippo Ganna will take on the UCI Hour Record at the Tissot Velodrome in Switzerland in the hope of surpassing the mark set by Britain’s Dan Bigham. Ganna will need to ride more than 55.548km to break the record, which is held by his Ineos Grenadiers team-mate Bigham, who is his performance engineer for his attempt.

World Championship rider ratings: Five-star Wout Van Aert hoping for no rogue Remco Evenepoel in road race

It's the big one. The last big one of the season, at any rate. The World Championship road race means the opportunity to sport the iconic rainbow bands for an entire season, and a rainbow trim on every jersey worn for the rest of their career.

Tadej Pogacar: Dropping Wout van Aert or Mathieu van der Poel at World Championships will be 'impossible'

Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia) believes that it will be «impossible» to drop either Wout van Aert (Belgium) or Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands) during the men's World Championship road race. Van Aert and Van der Poel again appear right among the favourites to take the rainbow jersey in Wollongong, with the peloton taking on a 266.9km course on the east Australian coast. Ad After negotiating an early climbing test, the riders will take on 12 loops of a city circuit that includes just a single climb to Mount Pleasant.

Switzerland take win in mixed team time trial at the World Championships from Italy and Australia

Switzerland powered to team time trial gold in a dominant display, with Italy taking silver and Australia the bronze. But that was only part of the story, the favourites Netherlands having a shocker of a day with a mechanical for Bauke Mollema and a crash for Annemiek van Vleuten absolutely wrecking their chances of a podium. While the plaudits must go to the Swiss team of Mauro Schmid, Stefan Kung, Stefan Bissegger, Elisa Chabbey, Marlen Reusser, Nicole Koller for an incredibly professional display in what was an event full of drama, Van Vleuten’s unbelievable crash was by far and away the biggest talking point.