Amber Neben’s World Championships got off to a disappointing start in the team time trial but the American is looking to turn things around in the women’s individual time trial on Tuesday.
Neben, 42, lost contact with her Team Virtu Cycling Women teammates in the TTT on Sunday when her chain became entangled with her crank. She was forced to wait for mechanical assistance and her team carried on to finish a respectable fifth in the 42.5km test.
Neben completed the course but her real aim comes on Tuesday when she looks to defend the individual crown she won twelve months ago in Doha, Qatar. She has raced sparingly this season but claimed both the national road and time trial titles earlier this year and despite Sunday’s setback is raring to go.
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“It was about 25 kilometres in and I lost my chain and it wrapped around the crank arm,” she told Cyclingnews. “There was nothing that I could do but stop, get off the bike and allow the mechanic to get it back on.
“They had the girls carry on but I was so close. I think that I stayed about a kilometre back the whole time. It was just unfortunate but there was nothing I could do. It was out of my control.”
Despite not seeing her teammates again until the finish Neben was able to use the race as a marker ahead of Tuesday. On Monday she will preview the individual course in more detail before looking to fend off a world class field over the demanding course. She will go up against last year’s podium of Ellen van Dijk (Netherlands) and Katrin Garfoot (Austraila), while Olga Zabelinskaya (Russian Federation) and Annemiek Van Vleuten (Netherlands) will also feature.
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