Calendar:
It starts with Time Trials:
- Sunday 21, morning: Elite Women (31 km)
- Sunday 21, afternoon: Elite Men (41 km)
- Monday 22, morning: U23 Women
- Monday 22, afternoon: U23 Men
- Tuesday 23, morning: Junior Women
- Tuesday 23, afternoon: Junior Men
- Wednesday 24 : mixed relays (2ร21km)
Then come the mass start races:
- Thursday 25, afternoon: U23 Women
- Friday 26, morning: Junior Men
- Friday 26, afternoon: U23 Men
- Saturday 27, morning: Junior Women
- Saturday 27, afternoon: Elite Women
- Sunday 28: Elite Men
NB: Women Elite ride the same distance as U23 Men; U23 Women ride the same distance as Junior Men.
Here is the map of the circuit that all mass start races will use:
and an example of repeated profile:
In addition of this circuit, the Elite Men will also ride once a longer circuit:
which will result in this complete profile:
Hindsight is cheating. I did get it very wrong though! Agree on the tactical stuff, that's kind of the beauty of worlds though ๐
I cannot travel back in time ๐
Well, no, I mean, like 2 turns (or 3?) from the finish, they still had the situation in hands, they still had personnel which could still be used, they still had their two leaders: so, there had been no misfortune, and the level displayed was OK. It still looked like a strong team, in a good position to control and later send its leaders for the final attack(s).
And then they made all sorts of assessments and choices wrong.