On the first day of the competition at the UCI Road World championships that’s taking place in Bergen, Chris Froome’s team seemed to be unfortunate.
Team Sky took bronze in the time trial race as Team SunWeb gave an amazing performance winning both of women’s and men’s races!
Even though Froome was joined in the team by Owain Doull and Geraint Thomas, it seems it was not meant to be once the pair soon dropped off the race leaving the champion along with Michal Kwiatkowski, Vasil Kiryienka and Gianni Moscon battle all alone for the victory.
“Like we said from the start it was never going to be easy. Teams have always stepped up a lot in this event,” Brett Lancaster, team director, said.
“The guys did their best effort and at the first split they were up by a second. We waited a bit on the climb as we knew ideally we needed five guys for the end, but the guys did a super job to bring it home.
Men’s team time trial results:
Team Sunweb (Ger) 47mins 50.42secs
BMC Racing Team (USA) +8.29secs
Team Sky (GB) +22.35secs
Quick-Step Floors (Bel) +35.20secs
Orica-Scott (Aus) +1min 03.21secs
#Bergen2017 This happened yesterday! What a performance and a day to remember! #KeepChallenging #CreatingMemories ??? pic.twitter.com/EsP6CzBKMy
— Team Sunweb (@TeamSunweb) September 18, 2017
Women’s team time trial results:
Team Sunweb (Ned) 55mins 41.63secs
Boels Dolams (Ned) +12.43secs
Cervelo-Bigla (Ger) +28.03secs
Canyon SRAM (Ger) +1:04.79
Team Virtu (Den) +2:51.52
