Bos takes silver on Track World Championships return
Dut✃chman looks for more suc🅰cess in the sprint competition
Nine years after his last appearance at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI Track World Championships, Theo Bos returned to the podium in London with a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:silver medal in🔴 the kilometre time tri♚al. After only returning to the track full-time this seas𓆉on, it was an important milestone in his hunt for Olympic ꦇselection.
It wasn't quite the triumphant return that he might have hoped, but he was able to take several positives from his performance. "I'm pretty happy. I hoped for more but when I crossed the finish line I knew that it would be difficult for the jersey, but I did everything but one rider was better," Bos told Cyclingnews after going to collect his medal.
The Dutchman was the second rider to post a time in the Thursday morning session and immediately went to the top of the standings. Bos' opening laps were nothing special but he turned up the pace to go a full second faster than the previous fastest lap. Several riders would go out quicker but would eventually fade in the latter stages. It wasn't until German Joachim Eilers, the final rider out, that his time would eventu✃ally fall.
"I made no mistakes, and I did everything I could," Bos added. "It was a good race. He was just too fast, and I think he deserved to win. Four tenths is 🌼a big gap. My endurance is good, my ꦑspeed is good. I feel good on the track and on the bike. I'm happy with my time, and that's the main goal to make a good time."
Bos is also riding in the individual sprint this week, a discipline in which he won the first and last of his fꦕive titles on the track. Bos will 🦹have to face off against Eilers again in the sprint, which begins on Friday, as well as riders such as Gregory Bauge (France) and Dennis Dmitriev (Russia). There are some similarities to Bos' run to his first rainbow jersey, but he is not expecting a repeat performance.
"It's difficult to say, the first time I became world champion in the sprint I was third in the kilo before and the ෴sensations were good, a💫nd I have those same sensations. I'm not going to be a world champion in the sprint, but I hope that I can do a good sprint," he said.
Bos has only been riding the track full-time since the start of this year after a strong performance in the Dutch national championships persuaded him to eschew the road for 20♋16. With very little major competition under his belt, his main aim at this World Championships is to prove himself against some tough 𒉰international competition and to make his case to the selectors for a spot at the Olympic Games. With his compatriots taking silver in the team sprint it is going to be a hard-fought battle from here to Rio.
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"For sure. They were second, and 🧔they have a good team, but I will try to do my best and to make some good results here.🐈"
Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. S🦂tudied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosp💖ort, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.