UCI Road World Championships 2024 Elite Men's time trial - Can Remco Evenepoel beat Filippo Ganna into rainbows for the second year in row?

Crazy crazy. It took me quite some time to feel good again [after the Olympics], but right on time. It was a tough day for me. My chain dropped a minute from the start then I took the start and had no power meter. It was a pure time trial on the feeling. I was struggling in the last kilometres - I pushed hard on the second kick and I went all out in the downhill as well. Without having the power metre it was quite difficult to keep the pace. But in a TT, especially a championship, it doesn't matter what the time gap is. I saw my time in green and felt like celebrating, so a pretty good day again.

1. Remco Evenepoel 53'01.98
2. Filippo Ganna +6.43
3. Edoardo Affini +54.44

No second medal for Josh Tarling this year, who misses out by 23 seconds.

A successful defence, by six seconds. Both riders had to dig deep at the end, but the Belgian is the best in the world at this discipline, and no-one would dispute that.

Just before the finsh line. Which means Ganna will finish more than 90 seconds ahead of Primoz. He almost slingshots around him. Can't have hurt his speed.

Good enough for 2nd provisionally but 23 seconds off first means in all likelihood he'll miss out on a medal.

Nineteen seconds quicker than ganna at the final check.

Off camera, because the first we know of it is when the camera cuts to him in the finishing straight showing him bloodied and grubby. It looks like he's taken a serious fall and has a story to tell. Needs to get cleaned up first, though. Less important but it has certainly cost him any hope of a medal, as he crosses the line currently in second place 29 seconds down.

His cadence has dropped but he's got 45 seconds on Jay Vine.

15 seconds quicker than Affini. Tarling has pulled back a bunch of time on the Australian and is now just three seconds down. The final 9km of the course should favour him.

But 4th after the first two checks means he is just about still a contender for a medal.

This is going to be close! Because it is close.

The screen shows him up on Vine by 19 seconds, which is massive. It's Tarling that will matter the most too, though, as it means he is now losing 45 seconds to his trade team-mate.

You'd have expected the Slovenian to do relatively better on that climb that the purists, so it's not going to be Rog's day, you'd reckon.

Like Kung, losing time on the climb as you'd expect, but the rest of the course favours him more.

He looks to have struggled on the climb, crossing the line in 5th place, having been in first. He's currently shipping almost 40 seconds to Jay Vine.

1. Remco Evenepoel 13'39.19
2. Filippo Ganna +6.7
3. Josh Tarling +12.04
4. Stefan Kung +21.75
5. Jay Vine +22.78

Really not much in it, and plenty of scope for this order to change.

The Italian comes home quickest taking 35 seconds out of Asgreen.

It's getting less important by the minute but still worth noting. For context Asgreen's first split time is now only the 16th best.

We have ourselves a race.