The Montreal course on Sunday used to go by our home a few decades ago when it went by Pine Ave by McGill University (that part of the course is gone). I remember Lemond showing up in 1988 before his come back year !!! Time flies. The current course up Camillon Houde climb and down Cote Des Neiges and through Univeristy of Montreal was my favourite local loop (all right hand turns if you don’t include the Park Avenue out and back. I think each loop has around 250m of climbing now
yeah you can’t really integrate the Park Ave loop on a normal day because then you’re dealing with traffic lights and left turns. Minus Park Ave it is almost all right turns!
I see that the Quebec Network TVA will have live coverage from 10 am to 4:30 pm for those who have access.I should be able to access via my Bell account (for all the channels they serve me) and depending on package around Canada on Shaw, Rogers, Telus etc.
By the way, what is the pavement quality on the loop these days. I have not had a compelling reason to go back to Montreal to ride that loop in that my family members who lived close to the loop have moved. I was just in Montreal last weekend for the Demi Esprit (Challenge Montreal). It was cool when both events were on the same weekend!
Well since the title includes the Worlds… what are thoughts regarding Primoz and Tadej on the same team, can they actually work together, I am sure they each want to beat the other… is it teamwork up until they drop the pack? then have at it?
Not sure anyone can beat Tadej, so Primoz should just do no work and let Tadej do what he does and see how long he (Primoz) can last to get a medal. I can’t see these guys working for each other (after all Tadej “took” Primoz’s best chance for a TdF win on the Planche des Belle Filles ITT a few years ago…let Tadej take a win on his own,he does not need Primoz’s help as he’ll have enough UAE team members on other nations collaborating.
Too bad Van Aert is not around. I would imagine he would be an ally of Primoz, but here is the summary of the worlds in 2020 in Imola AFTER Tadej beat Primoz on Plance des Belles Filles:
From what I recall Tadej was with everyone starting the climbs out of the track on the final lap 28km from the finish and he did a bike change for a lighter bike and lost a ton of time chasing back. Meanwhile Primoz was in the lead group. Alaphillpe dropped everyone (I think when they came back to the track) and Van Aert got silver 24 seconds back in the group Primoz was in.
That Imola course I think was a bit like the upcoming Zurich course (more climbing at 9x600m) …I believe Zurich is ~4000m.
