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Continues: Reusser trailed at the first split. By the finish she'd beaten Bäckstedt by 40…
TakeWorlds3 weeks ago
Bäckstedt led the world time trial title at the first check. She lost it to Marlen Reusser's engine, not her own mistakes.
At the first split, Bäckstedt believed a win was possible. She knew Reusser could claw the gap back — and said so before the finish confirmed it. Her own words: "massive respect to her." That's not the language of a rider who thinks she's arrived; it's a 21-year-old, fresh off the U23 title, naming the gap between fast and dominant.
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