Worlds-EU championship scheduling causes travel scramble
World Time Trial Champion and silver medalist in the road race Remco Evenepoel has another race on his hands this week: getting home from Rwanda in time to race Wednesday's European Time Trial Championships.
For reasons unknown, the UCI allowed the European Championships to follow Worlds by less than a week. While the courses are quite different and there is not much overlap in the roster for the TT events, Evenepoel is one of several riders who were in Rwanda who will be scrambling to make the turnaround – Juliette Labous and Marlen Reusser also raced the road event in Kigali and are scheduled for Wednesday's TT.
"A ridiculous schedule, of course," Dutch national team coach Koos Moerenhout told Wielerflits, noting that the different fields (all six Euro TT fields race on Wednesday) have different start times and in some cases different start locations. The elite road races are October 4-5. The road races also conflict with the Italian 1.Pro Giro dell'Emilia event and the U23 Giro di Lombardia.
