Rohan Dennis and Stefan Küng will headline BMC Racing’s team time trial effort at the UCI Road World Championships on Sunday as the team bids to regain the title it won in 2014 and 2015. BMC placed second behind Quick-Step Floors a year ago in Doha.
The experienced team features five of the riders who claimed gold in Richmond two years ago, with Dennis and Küng joined Daniel Oss, Silvan Dillier and Manuel Quinziato, as well as Worlds team time trial debutant Miles Scotson. Americans Tejay van Garderen and Joey Rosskopf have been named as reserves.
Dennis, Oss, Dillier and Quinziato were also world champions in the discipline in Ponferrada in 2014, and the team can count on the input of BMC performance director Marco Pinotti, who was part of BMC’s silver medal ride in the inaugural team time trial Worlds in 2012.
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“We have two pure top-level specialists like Rohan Dennis and Stefan Küng, two strong and powerful assets in Daniel Oss Oss and Silvan Dillier, one experienced road caption in Manuel Quinziato, and Miles Scotson, who is young but has an established background in team pursuit,” Pinotti said. “So we have a mix of strength, experience, and freshness.”
Directeur sportif Jackson Stewart said that the Bergen parcours had more in common with Richmond and Ponferrada than the pan flat route in Doha a year ago.
“It's probably a combination of the Ponferrada and Richmond courses. The course is hillier but it is really suited to our team,” he said. “The longer climb in the last third of the race will be a crucial part where you need to stay together and hopefully have the whole team arrive together in the center of Bergen.”
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