Day 6 (last) individual time trials

Women:

The two favourites came 1^st^ and 2^nd^, but Reusser🇨🇭 dominated Vollering🇳🇱 everywhere, even in the climb. It looked (I haven't checked) like the Dutchwoman's final section was also worse than for a couple of other riders: she was cooked.

Labous🇫🇷 took a nice Bronze medal (after the team Gold the day before), just ahead of the Italian rider Longo Borghini🇮🇹.

Men:

In the absence of top guys, France becomes a nation of TT specialists 😊, but Roglitch🇸🇮's 2026 revival continues! The Slovenian was faster on the climb, and not much slower on the other sections.

Decomble🇫🇷 was very happy to get his Bronze medal, a few seconds ahead of Van Wilder🇧🇪 and Küng🇨🇭 who lost too much time in the climb.

Armirail🇫🇷 was very disappointed with his Silver medal. I think he was a bit cooked in the last mile, as the rider he overtook (Schmidt🇨🇭) was then trying hard to... not overtake him again in the last hectometres, while already in a relaxed position while the Frenchman was still in a pure TT position.

I just noted something funny about Roglitch🇸🇮. In terms of PCS points, 2026 is his worst season in 10 years. Yet I, and I suppose most people, would say thus year is better.

I reckon two things happened: last year, his best performance was very early in the year, while this year he woke up late in the season, so that make a huge hole in between; and then we probably got lower and lower expectations about him along the last few years, so each new performance stands out more and more.

Well, another thing is the PCS points scale, of course, that may not reflect exactly what each persons considers a better performance.

As the courses were the same for men and women, and the men race took place immediately after the women race, we can a make a few little comparisons.

Reusser's winning time would have put her beyond 30^th^ place, if men and women had been riding together.

Strangely, the U23 men performance (the race happened earlier) was very dense, close to elite men: the first 4 U23 would have made it into elite top-10! Perhaps the weather was significantly different.