The UCI World Road Championships looks set to bookend what’s
been a remarkable year for Cycling and the team time trial – making a comeback –
is an ideal way to kick things off over the beautiful and hilly hills of
Limburg. There are a number of talented time triaists at the moment which have
led to some very talented squads turning up to fight it out but few can match
the class of Omega Pharma Quickstep, who were on course to win the opening Team Time Trial at the Vuelta
but for having Tony Martin and Zyndnek Zybar led the wrong way by a race
motorbike. The team had been fastest at the 8.1km checkpoint, just short of
halfway through the 16.5km course, but ended it just behind the Dutch team.
Movistar blasted them all out of the way at the time but their squad is weaker
and there’s no guarantees that they’d have won if Omega Pharma had kept on
course.
National TT champions Kristof Vandewalle (Belgium), Sylvain
Chavanel (France) and Peter Velits (Slovakia) with Niki Terpstra and the
in-form Tom Boonen all oint world champion Tony Martin, and they should have
very high expectations of themselves this afternoon with a price of 2/1 looking
like a very solid shout.
Advice
4 pts Omega Pharma Quickstep (2/1 general)
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