2022 World Cycling Championships – Tobias Foss crowned world time trial champion, Küng and Evenepoel on the podium, Pogacar 6th – Eurosport FR

We were expecting Filippo Ganna, Tadej Pogacar or Stefan Bissegger. And… we got the Tobias Foss surprise. The Norwegian created a huge sensation this Sunday by becoming world time trial champion at the age of 25 in Wollongong, Australia. Author of a last part of supersonic time, he beat the unfortunate Stefan Küng (Switzerland, + 2”95), yet well ahead in the second score, and the Belgian Remco Evenepoel (+9”). Double title holder, Filippo Ganna (Italy) completely exploded (7th). Best Frenchman, Bruno Armirail took 10th place. We knew that this Australian track could hold surprises, but absolutely no one saw it coming. Tobias Foss is not the newcomer when it comes to the time trial exercise either, but the Norwegian had so far, with the exception of his national championship, never won a single time trial. his career, including among hopefuls and juniors. He chose his day of grace well. Because that’s what it’s all about. The Norwegian was on another planet and sickened all his opponents. Worlds on the road The surprise Tobias Foss world time trial champion: his arrival on video AN HOUR AGOFoss: “I wonder if it’s real”Küng however, he had the title in hand…We thought for a long time that Stefan Küng was going to be untouchable in this Wollongong time trial. Started at full speed, much more bleeding in the turns than in the European Championship, the Swiss took the lead at the two intermediate points of the course, with even a 12” lead at the Foss after 27 kilometers. What to see coming, we thought then. But it was not necessary to leave too quickly in this chrono. The riders who started strong generally all cracked, like in particular Filippo Ganna, the double defending champion, at the same time as the Norwegian at the first point before exploding (7th, + 55 ”). Where Foss accelerated again in the final. Overpowered in the last kilometers, Tobias Foss took over 14” from a Stefan Küng who clearly got stuck in the last section. Two seconds too long for the Swiss, forced to give up this world title which seemed promised to him but which will continue to elude him. And it was Foss who won the biggest victory of his career, Norway’s first ever world title in the time trial. As at the European Championships, Küng is still content with the silver medal. Evenepoel still brilliant, no miracle for the Blues A little blunted by his victorious Vuelta, Remco Evenepoel again managed a high-flying time. The Belgian, left quite strong, never really stuck. But he couldn’t do anything in the final, with the headwind, but he still won 3rd place, his 3rd medal at the Worlds, after the bronze of last year and the silver of 2019. He can say thank you to the chain jump of Ethan Hayter (Great Britain), who left to play for the podium, before losing everything on this incident (4th). Too fair, Stefan Bissegger (Switzerland, 5th) and Tadej Pogacar (Slovenia, 6th) must be content with places of honor. A chain jump and farewell to the podium: how Ethan Hayter lost everything on the clockLike the French Bruno Armirail ( 10th, + 1’09”) and Rémi Cavagna (11th, + 1’14”). The two Tricolores signed a good time, even if the “TGV de Clermont” clearly stuck in the second part of the route. But we will have to wait to have a successor to Jérôme Coppel, the last Habs medalist at the Worlds, in 2015.Worlds on the roadA chain jump and farewell to the podium: how Ethan Hayter lost everything on the clockAN HOUR AGOWorlds on the roadRelive the 3rd coronation by Van Dijk on the Worlds chrono4 HOURS AGO