"I had a shit day" was how 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Annemiek van Vleuten described her performance during the elite women's individual time trial at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2022 UCI Road World Championships on Saturday in Wollongong, Australia.
The Olympic Champion and former two-time time trial World Champion told the press in the mixed zone that she knew from the start she wasn't in contention for a third 🧸world title in the discipline.
"I had the feeling that it was not possible today. When I left out🍬 of the gates hard, I had the feeling that I was already quite behind at the first intermediate point," Van Vleuten told reports at the finish line.
"I knew that I had a shit day. Afterward, when I look to my ♕efforts power, I could see that I did not have a good day."
It was likely a bitter-sweet day for Van Vleuten because while she only managed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:seventh place in the time trial, her compatriot Ellen van Dijk won the wꦍorld title for the second year in a row, and a third time in her career.
Van Vl🧸euten finishe🦂d the 34.2km time trial at 1:43 behind Van Dijk's winning time of 44:28.
At the intermediate checkpoints, Van Vleuten was 10th fastest at the first 7.2km point and had already lost 10 seconds🌱. She was then eighth fastest at 34 seconds down𝐆 at the 24.5km point.
"No, I had the feeling that it was not such a good day, and at the intermediate it was not so good, I heard that also, and then your confidence goes down. I don't have too much to say. It wasn't possible today. I di🍃dn't have a good day," Van Vleuten said.
It is a rarity to see the Dutch rider have a bad day after having delivered so consistently on her big goals this year, winning overall titles at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia Donne, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France Femmes and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ceratizit Challenge by La Vuelta.
She has targeted the World Championships as her final event of the seas⭕on and will now turn her attention to the mixed team reꦐlay on September 21 and the elite women's road race on September 24.
