“I’m not feeling very well at the moment,” the Dutch all-rounder told NOS . “I fell on the same side as I fell on the road race. My front wheel slipped on a relatively easy part of the track. It’s my own fault. I can’t say much about it either, other than being angry with myself. It’s just a shame that I had such a nice period on the bike end so stupidly.”
It could be that the very difficult and taxing road race ten days earlier had taken some sharpness out of him. It certainly had that effect on van Aert and Pogačar. The Belgian did not look his usual rapid self nine days after the road race when he finished fifth in the ITT, 1:37.23 behind winner Remco Evenepoel, while the Slovenian two-time Tour de France winner finished a distant 21st, at 3:05.88. “I cannot be satisfied with the result today,” Pogačar told Eurosport. “but on Sunday, I left it all on the road.”
Filippo Ganna finished second in the ITT, 12.28 adrift, with the 19-year-old Welshman Joshua Tarling coming in third, at 48.20. Evenepoel won the ITT despite his participation in the road race but he realized at one point in that event that the route, with its many twists and turns, did not suit him and wisely took the foot off the gas, to save himself for the time trial. He finished a distant 25th, 10:10 behind van der Poel. Many riders did not like that course, […]
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