Triple reigning world champion, Filippo Ganna this time did not bring home the gold medal at the Roubaix Worlds in individual pursuit. The Italian has to be content with third place. At the top of the podium this Friday night, we find Ashton Lambie. “It’s incredible, it will take me several days to achieve. I’m on a little cloud, tells the American to DirectVelo. But Filippo Ganna is still the strongest. Have you seen our awards? How many World Champion titles does he have? So yes, I was faster than him. However, Filippo Ganna shines all year round on the road and at the Giro, then on the track. He is phenomenal“.
This gravel enthusiast qualified in 4’03 “237, before finishing the job in 4’05” 060 against Jonathan Milan. Times still quite far from his world record of 3’59”930 achieved at altitude in Aguascalientes (Mexico) last August. “I look forward to the end of the season. I didn’t have the world record in mind these days. However, this will soon become a goal again.“. At 30, Ashton Lambie is logically looking for all means to go faster. He who reacts correctly to the inconvenience of altitude. ”Mexico was a different effort and training. With the altitude, my eyes were saggy. In comparison, after a chase here in Roubaix, I still know how to walk“. Higher than the 1800 meters of altitude of Aguascalientes, the track of Cochabamba in Bolivia gravitates to 2500 meters above the sea level. It could allow the American to pass a second time under the bar of 4 minutes. Last year, after the Berlin World Cup, he had already tried to get there but the coronavirus has cut the rug out from under him. ”I have made contacts but currently the political climate is too unstable. There are government problems and when I read in the Wall Street Journal that the president must have been put away by the military, that doesn’t give me too much confidence. “.
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