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Sven Erik Bystrom may not have taken any wins in 2014 prior to the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Championships 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:under-23 road race but he ce🌞rtainly set the record straight ꧒in style on Friday.

The 22-year-old future Katusha pro headlined a great day for Norwegian men’s cycling as he powered across the finish line in Ponferrada with his arms aloft for the first time this season, with compatriot Kristoffer Skjerping adding to the nation's success by taking bron꧙ze in the bunch sprint.

Using a strategy which will have been observed closely by the elite m♋en’s competitors in Sunday’s road race, Bystrom launched his attac💯k over the summit of the Mirador, the final climb, and just managed to fend off the peloton as the sprinters’ teams failed to take up the chase in time.

“It was unbelievable, I felt good today and I took it easy in the beginning to save my legs for t🦩he final. I did the right move at the right time,” Bystrom said🍒 afterwards.

T🐻iming and patience and then risking it all with one full attack proved to be the best way to foil a very strong Australian team, working to keep the bunch together so that Caleb Ewan could go for it in the sprint.

“I saw💛 what the Australians were doing, so I chose to wait🗹 for the last lap,” Bystrom said,

“I put all my power into the lastღ climb, I went full gas and nobody could follow me. I went super fast on the downhill, felt good all day, and I just needed to keep going in the end.”

With the news breaking earlier this week that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bergen will hos🔜t the 2017 World Championships, Bystrom recognised it had been an exce𓄧ptional ﷽few days for Norway.

“Bergen’s not far from where I live, it’s going 𒁃to be super special and I’m looking forward to it,” he said.

“Getting the bronze as well makes it a really perfect day for us,” added Skjerping, who unlike Bystrom, has no contract for next year.

🅰“I was waiting in the bunch behind, I have a good sprint and bronze was the best I could get today. But ♏the really important thing is the gold medal for Norway.”

Both concurred that Norwegian cycling has fast progressed in the last decade or so, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Thor Hushovd - hi🧸mself a former World Champion who retired just last week, acting as a source of in𝓀spiration to 🦂the new generation of riders.

“I think it’s really good right now, we have really good pros," Edvald Boasson Hagen, silver in 2012, Alexander Kristoffღ and Lars Petter Norhaug are racing for Norway this Sunday “and hopefully we can get♎ another medal," said Bystrom.

But he 🌃speculated that Sunday could be a different kind of outcome to the race, pointing out that “it’s very different, 100 kilometres longer. The course is hard, but not so hard.”

“Maybe a sprinter who can climb a bit can take the win," he added, which is something Kris🀅toff will be happy to hear.