Le podium du championnat du monde de contre-la-montre 2024 : 🥇Remco Evenepoel - 24 ans - 🇧🇪 🥈Filippo Ganna - 28 ans - 🇮🇹 🥉Edoardo Affini - 28 ans - 🇮🇹 #Zurich2024
“I didn’t expect to be on the podium" - Edoardo Affini adds to European time trial title with World Championships podium
CyclingSunday, 22 September 2024 at 20:00
Edoardo Affini has been having a brilliant few weeks. After taking the men's individual time trial title at the 2024 European Championships, the Italian has backed it up with a third placed finish at the World Championships on Sunday afternoon in Zürich.
“It’s a great feeling,” the 28-year-old, who plies his trade at Team Visma | Lease a Bike reflects afterwards in conversation with Cycling Pro Net. “I didn’t expect to be on the podium. To be honest, I thought a top-10 finish would be a good result. I dreamed of a top-5. When I was in the hot seat and saw others crossing the finish line, I slowly started to think that there was more in it.”
In an added bonus for the Italian, Affini shared the final podium with compatriot Filippo Ganna, although both had to concede victory to the faultless Remco Evenepoel. “It is very nice that I can share the podium with Filippo. I am disappointed for him, because he came close," Affini assesses. "It would have been perfect if he had won, but this is also very nice. Remco just did very well."
"The last few days were all about recovering after the Vuelta and the European Championships," Affini concludes his post-race assessment. "It seems to have worked. Maybe it is an option to race a lot more often and just rest in between. Although it can’t get any busier than this!”
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- yeah, that’s a more fair assessment. “reaching mathieu’s level” doesn’t mean you’re planning to replicate his whole career. the former IS doable, potentially. it’s just the latter that likely is not.OCexile25-12-2024
- That’s not entirely true. Every person follows their own development path and peaks differently. Remco and Primoz had hardly started cycling before elite level. Jonas was pretty much under the radzr until he unexpectedly had to take over responsibility at JV. Some guys only get real good in their thirties others have peaked mid-twenties. You can’t tell in advance how and upto what level they will progress, obviously his career might not have MVDPs length but nothing says he could not end up doing a few seasons at his level.Mistermaumau25-12-2024
- well, del grosso is 21 right now. when mathieu was a year younger than that, he was already winning elite level world championships, not U23. i think del grosso will be a very good pro for years, but if he was really going to be the next van der poel someday, he’d already have to be at that level right NOW. van der poel was showing signs of true greatness when he was 15-16. THAT’S what generational talent looks like.OCexile25-12-2024
- Yeah.... gear 😅.mikolajjj24-12-2024
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- Ok, happy I’m not too interested in this team coz’ the account of what happened is really hard to follow.Mistermaumau24-12-2024
- The UCI is worse than USA CyclingVeganpotter24-12-2024
- It's not like they wanted her to not win😅 She had an outstanding Olympics. But there's a reason why she wasn't expected to win the road race and that's ok. Things like this happen and it's great...better than seeing expected winners win.Veganpotter24-12-2024
- Bruyneel ? The man with a lifetime ban from cycling...why do you keep giving him and his doper mate, Armstrong, a platform?DJ24-12-2024
- yeah, agree. on the subject of being a “complete rider,” i do think that’s getting more interesting. mathieu seems to have decided he wants to get much better at climbing the the high mountain passes. he appears to be looking for new challenges, which should be interesting to watch. in most cases you’d dismiss a goal like that at age 30, but it’s mvdp. he’s never going to climb with the real climbers, but if he can improve enough it could open up stage wins when the parcours isnt just purely toothy and punchy.OCexile24-12-2024