World Championships Time Trial 2026 Preview
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What is the overall preview of the 2026 World Championships individual time trials?
Welcome back to the Lantern Rouge Cycling Podcast for the preview of the World Championships Individual Time Trial, both men and women's. The women's is on, they're both on Sunday, I believe. We got Renko Evenepoel as the heavy favorite for the men's. We've got a similar heavy favorite in the women's. with both similar odds, actually, with Marlon Roycer, who's had an up and down year. We'll talk about the course, but before we'll get into Quebec and Montreal, we spoke, I think, about Quebec already, where Remco, yeah, he got cooperation from Chaconne and Charmick. He attacked in between the climbs and got away. Montreal was a... pretty different race bng it's the same circuit by the way but they do more laps in gp montreal to be honest
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go ahead sorry well normally you always think the world champs is like an excel version
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super hard but it's actually the reverse right
Especially because, I swear, at the end of last year when this Montreal route started stirring up, we were of the assumption that the Montreal course was harder than the GP Montreal course. It's why I was so fanatically saying that Wout van Aert, not necessarily one of the guys you can count on if it's like, well, let's say 25 laps, so to say. because then it's a lot harder. But if it comes down from 17 laps to, I think, 12 laps or something, I'm not completely sure about the counting there. But that's a pretty big deal. The race is longer, but there's less climbs. But we're talking about the time trial here, Patrick. And this time trial parkour this time around, it's... It's long for both the men and women, which I'm a fan of.
I like long time trials for the world championships. And am I correct in saying it's roughly 39 kilometers, basically 90% flat, but the last kilometer has an uphill segment?
Yeah, the last 700 metres, about 6.5%, and up to where they basically started in Montreal, which is, I think, the base of the road race circuit there on the western side of the river. Do we recap tactically what I thought from Montreal?
I think we should. I think we should, actually. It's a bit of a malguided podcast so far, but let's go to GP Montreal. Doesn't matter too much. In that race, Ben Healy was like the guy up front for quite a long time. US race was, I'm saying the US team as if it's already like a national team race. I mean, the US riders were really strong in the race is what I'm trying to convey here, whether it's the likes of McNulty, et cetera, Quinn Simmons playing a role. UE had the upper hand for most of the final, right?
Yeah, it was... Bora had Van Gils with Healy, and Wismar had Kelderman, and the other big teams were all represented. They pulled with Healy, but I was like, yeah, but Healy will drop you all. And that's what happened, except... And Yates, he even dropped. I think Yates was the strongest with Van Gils, but he still dropped him, because he had Bonin pulling for him, and then all the other teams had to chase. And so we had a very... We had Sykes-Ass attacking across, and they never got... The race favorites created a winning move, but Healy was still ahead, which was a very entertaining couple of laps, actually. Remco had been blocked by Schoens just as those moves were going, and he got very, very annoyed.
A similar thing had happened on a previous lap, and he kind of lost composure for a second when a group of McNulty, Del Toro, And Yates was there. They caught up to Sykesass. One more.
There's one more rider. I genuinely couldn't tell you for the life of me who it was. I couldn't tell you right now. Was it Chico? In this scenario, it is, hypothetically. It doesn't matter too much. It's not the most relevant name for the outcome to the race, to be honest. But UAE had the numerical hand there. Remco was in the group behind. The gap was nearly 40 seconds, I'm pretty sure. Then eventually he cooks the people he's with. He attacks them over the top of a hill, I think, and gets away. They're trying to bridge towards the front. And we've got this three-group scenario. You've got Helio at the front solo.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the overall preview of the 2026 World Championships individual time trials?
0:00–7:46
2
How does the Montreal circuit differ from the Quebec course for the time trial?
7:46–14:55
3
What tactical lessons can be learned from the GP Montreal race analysis?
14:55–20:40
4
Which riders are considered the top favorites for the men’s time trial and why?
20:40–37:57