Kristin Armstrong cemented her place at the top of the women's TT ranks with an imperious display in Mendriso, taking the Women's TT title by a big margin. The American looked a class act on the Swiss streets, taking the rainbow jersey by 55 seconds from Italian Noemi Cantele. Linda Melanie Villumsen of Denmark took the third podium place.
The two-lap course featured a sharp climb and some tight sections so didn't necessarily look to favour a TT specialist, But Britain's Emma Pooley will be looking to the road race for medals after she came in in eleventh place. Wendy Houvenaghel finished in 23rd overall.
Pooley went through the first lap in eighth, 44 seconds off Olympic champion Armstrong's leading time and the American just got better as the race went on. By the time Pooley crested the climb for the second time she was out of contact with the leaders.
Armstrong passed Olympic bronze medallist Karin Thürig, who started 90 seconds behind the American, on her way to the line and sprinted in to record a finishing time of 35:25, 55 seconds in front of the Italian Cantele. Emma Pooley faded in the run-in, finishing nearly two minutes down, and none of the riders behind her had the power to compete with Armstrong either. Defending champion Amber Neber was the last over the line, finishing in sixth place.
"It doesn't matter what year it is or how many times you win, winning the World Champs is still the best feeling in the world", said Armstrong. "I wanted to focus and be happy with my performance. I wanted the strongest woman to win"
"Last year I was fifth after the gold in beijing, it was difficult to motivate myself. This time I had a year to prepare and I had a perfect day"
Nigel Farage is is the voice that fuckwits need to justify their existence.
So uninsured?...
Oh excellent. More expensive tech to hand over to the bike jacker.
Armstrong has never told the FULL truth.
Is the relvant authorites are so inept they can't even efficiently tax someone who sole relevant skill is that they drive a car quickly in a circle...
Turns out that the ways the Grand Fromage upstairs moves in aren't that strange after all.
Clarkson. Fat moron's icon talking tocix ill-informed bollix shocker. If ever there was someone who should just be put out to grass with the rest...
It will be interesting what new features or functions the new Booky and Roam V3's have, plus if any new functions get added to the element app....
I know they're the dregs but that really would be scraping the bottom of the barrel.
+1 for the physio. I'd knee problems a few years back - except the problem wasn't really my knees, it was muscles above and below. I doubt I'd have...