Tinkoff's Maciej Bodnar rides to fourth Polish national time trial title
Maciej Bodnar won his first Polish time trial title since 2013 and fourth career red and white jersey, 28 seconds ahead of ONE Procycling's Marcin Bialoblocki in Swidnica. The Tinkoff rider who fractured his jaw in a pre-Tour of Flanders training ride in April before making his comeback at the Skoda-Tour de Luxembourg then riding the Tour de Suisse, covered the 52km course in 1:07:28.
"I'm so happy - it was a difficult period for me after the crash, so today's win is very special," said Bodnar who was able to fine tune his capabilities against the clock in the Luxembourg prologue and two time trials in Switzerland. "I was calm with the team before the race and had my family and girlfriend here too which was really nice. Everything went really well, we never lost concentration, even when I was 30 seconds down at the first check. Also as its Olympic year the win gives me a big chance to race there for Poland.
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"I came here from the Tour de Suisse which was a really hard race with tough conditions, but I recovered well. Today was 53km and over 30 degrees so it was tough but the numbers were good. Last year I came back after a crash to win at the Tour of Poland and I've come back again to win here."
With Rafal Majka and Pawel Poljanski as teammates for Sunday's road race, Bodnar explained he is confident Tinkoff can do the double.
"We have a really strong team - the parcours is difficult, but I feel good and we have Rafal and Pawel who are going well. I think we are in a good position to make the race but it is always difficult against the Polish teams with up to 15 riders so we will have to be clever."
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