" The most dazzling time trial I've ever done! Moving watts was important, dodging primordial puddles." Iñigo Elosegui, one of the best Spanish cycling talents of the future, perfectly summed up the extreme conditions in which the U23 time trial world championship was played. The torrential rains suffered by the province of Yorkshire (United Kingdom) have caused the competition to become a save who can embarrass.
Johan Price-Pejtersen , European champion of the specialty in the category, left the image of the day when he was immersed in one of the many puddles that were formed along the route, almost the same one in which the Elite female test this Tuesday. It was not the only fall, there were also those who were shot by the asphalt, dodging the blows with the curbs of the sidewalks, like the Hungarian Valger Attila.
But there were more scares: punctures due to the adhesion caused by the rain in the tubular, landslides that almost ended in tragedy ... Worrying situations that focus on the ICU in the face of what may happen throughout the week, in which the different tests of the world championship are chained, with the culmination of the elite men's road race on Sunday.
On the purely sporting level, the Danish Mikkel Bjerg reaffirmed his absolute mastery of the specialty, getting his third consecutive gold in the sub'23 category ahead of the Americans Garrison and McNulty. Elosegui finished 17th and the other Spanish, Xavier Miquel Azparren, 46th.
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