World Championships Time Trial 2026
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What is the layout of the Montreal World Championships time‑trial course?
welcome back to the legendary cycling podcast the recap of the 2026 world championships time trial we are in montreal with the same course for the men and women's 39 kilometers long from uh the yeah the the hill that the world chance road race will be on next week in the montreal road race and then they go east in over this sort of narrow isthmus crossing some bridges heading north and then back through the gilles villeneuve motor circuit and then back on some pretty variable road surface i think there were some complaints about that uh back to the start of the hill it's a pretty flat tt but the average speed was not that high if we look at say oh it is a long tt but if we look at yeah I think Zurich was more elevation gain and actually not differing speeds.
So although there's 218 meters of elevation gain, the women had cloudy conditions. The men had a bit brighter conditions in the afternoon in Canada. This episode is brought to you by Morton.
One thing, Patrick, I need to do a small apology. In the preview for this podcast, I made a joke about the Villeneuve circuit. I joked that it was named after Danny Villeneuve. Turns out it's named after someone that passed away. So I want to retract that joke that didn't come across very well. So apologies in terms of that. But I
was looking forward to this. Well, hopefully the Villeneuve family cancelled Benji for that inappropriate joke in the time trial preview. And then, yeah, I got to say, I couldn't get my bearings in this TT whatsoever. I had no idea where they were at any point, except when they were on the narrow strip of land heading north towards the F1 circuit. The intermediates were really... The, like, the isthmus.
What is an
isthmus? It wasn't a bridge, it was an isthmus.
What does that even mean? Is
that Christmas without crew? It's a narrow strip of land. A bridge is something different. A bridge is elevated above water.
Sure, buddy. It's fine. I just saw a road crossing water and I named it a bridge. I'm so sorry. I hope the bridges don't start to cancel me now. I'm just saying that on one side of the road, there were cars. On the other side, I saw in the men's race, Stefan Bissiger. That was a landmark for me. But outside of that, I also struggled to find my bearings in this town, Charlie. It was a bit uninspiring. No offense to Montreal, because I like the GP Montreal course.
yeah i mean the montreal course is good on the hill but they're just doing like the same five six k laps but indeed this i really they're either going through medium density um housing or um shops they didn't really go through the city too much they like downtown and then yeah they were on the f1 circuit and then the the intermediates were very closely cropped in so i couldn't at the intermediates you couldn't really tell where they were uh what i did enjoy is that the stop signs in Montreal are arrête, not stop. And in France, they are stop. Really? That made me laugh a lot. I don't know why, but it made me laugh. I didn't know that. I've never
realized that in France, that it's not arrête.
It's in all countries. It's part of the international. It's for safety that you just have a single thing for stop.
So you're saying that Canada's trying to create traffic accidents by changing the language
on the ports? They want Americans to crash by going through stop signs because they don't understand their... Yes, I think it is a big part of that. It's a conspiracy for them to do that. We had Renko as the $1.22 favorite. We had Royster as the $1.25 favorite. Baxter the second favorite. Gander the second favorite. I picked both the second favorites because I need to feel something on a Sunday evening. And we did not have the second favorites come particularly close. In both... Well, they didn't. In both races... Remco puts Ganner on a minute, 57 seconds. He goes over a K an hour quicker in the women's. Royce does a big negative split and just blows Baxter out of the water from T3 to the finish, putting 40 seconds into her at the finish.
Although a very good ride from Baxter to course, she still technically could do the U23 race.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the layout of the Montreal World Championships time‑trial course?
0:00–5:08
2
Why did Benji apologize for the Villeneuve joke and what is an isthmus?
5:08–11:43
3
How did the riders struggle to find their bearings on the narrow isthmus and bridges?
11:43–17:24
4
Which riders dominated the men's TT and how did Remco van der Kooij win?
17:24–23:50
5
Who were the top three women in the TT and how did Royce de Vries secure victory?
23:50–28:48
6
What is Morton’s Bicarb system and why do riders use it before a TT?
28:48–29:45
7
What do the celebrations of Remco van der Kooij and Royce de Vries signify?
29:45–30:29