2019 Cycling World Championships

So three things have happened this week at the cycling world championships that I wanted to bring to your attention.

First was the men's under 23 individual time trial on Tuesday. I have never seen anything like the weather they were biking through. You can watch the highlights below and you'll see what I mean. They would be riding along and hit a standing puddle of water. And it is nerve racking to see these guys riding 50 miles an hour on a course where you have continually seen people crashing because of the weather. The good news is the United States took both the silver and the bronze.

1	Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark)	0:40:20.42
2	Ian Garrison (United States of America)	0:00:26.45
3	Brandon Mcnulty (United States of America)	0:00:27.69
4	Mathias Norsgaard Jørgensen (Denmark)	0:00:36.78
5	Brent Van Moer (Belgium)	0:00:43.26
6	Morten Hulgaard (Denmark)	0:00:56.07
7	Nils Eekhoff (Netherlands)	0:01:01.02
8	Byron Munton (South Africa)	0:01:26.59
9	Markus Wildauer (Austria)	0:01:38.18
10	Daan Hoole (Netherlands)	0:01:45.79

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Second was the women's elite individual time trial on Tuesday. Chloe Dygert of the United States utterly destroyed the competition. It is the most dominant win I have ever seen. Generally speaking riders are ranked from best to worst and they go off from worst to best. Dygert started in the 20 position, which meant she was considered to be the 20th best rider in the field. It is incredible just how much faster she was than anyone else. It is great fun to watch. This was ridden on the same day as the U23 men's talked about above.  Here is a quote from cyclingnews that tells you all you need to know about this performance.

In the race of truth, the numbers say it all. Dygert Owen's winning margin is the biggest since individual time trials were first introduced to the World Championships a quarter of a century ago, beating the previous record of 1:27, established by Fabian Cancellara in 2009.

1	Chloe Dygert Owen (United States)	0:42:11
2	Anna Van der Breggen (Netherlands)	0:01:32
3	Annemiek Van Vleuten (Netherlands)	0:01:52
4	Amber Leone Neben (United States)	0:02:38
5	Lisa Klein (Germany)	0:02:40
6	Marlen Reusser (Switzerland)	0:03:02
7	Leah Thomas (United States)	0:03:12
8	Lucinda Brand (Netherlands)	0:03:15
9	Alena Amialiusik (Belarus)	0:03:17
10	Lisa Brennauer (Germany)	0:03:19

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Third is that Quinn Simmons won the men's junior road race gold today for the United States and his teammate Magnus Sheffield took the bronze. When highlights are posted I'll embed them here. Can't wait to watch this tonight. Simmons attacked with 33kms to go and soloed to victory.

1	Quinn Simmons (United States Of America)	3:38:04
2	Alessio Martinelli (Italy)	0:00:56
3	Magnus Sheffield (United States Of America)	0:01:33
4	Enzo Leijnse (Netherlands)
5	Gianmarco Garofoli (Italy)
6	Vegard Stokke (Norway)
7	Alfred George (Great Britain)	0:01:45
8	Frederik Wandahl (Denmark)
9	Jakub Bouček (Czech Republic)
10	Milan Paulus (Belgium)