Tadej Pogacar and Anna Kiesenhofer on start of European Climbing Time Trial Championship next week
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In just a week, Tadej Pogacar will participate in the 'European Grimpeurs' in Switzerland. This European Championship mountain time trial is on the program for the very first time on Sunday July 30. The St. Gotthard Pass is the setting for the battle for the brand new title.
The European Championship Grimpeurs is an open competition: everyone can register for it. There are different categories, in which a distinction is also made between licensees (professionals) and non-licensees (amateurs).
The riders will start from Tremola and finish on top of the St. Gotthard Pass. On the course of 12,5 kilometers they'll climb over 900 altitude meters on average gradients of 7%.
While Pogacar is the big eye-catcher with the elite men, Olympic Champion Anna Kiesenhofer will start with the elite women. The rest of the startlist is not yet known.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024