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Brandon McNulty finished fourth in the Elite Men's Time Trial, 12 seconds off bronze. He's already talking about the road race in terms of numbers, not near-misses: «…I think we have numbers to at least play our cards well.»
Team USA's Montreal roster carries three riders who can plausibly win Sunday's Elite Men's Road Race — McNulty, Quinn Simmons, and Matteo Jorgenson. That kind of depth is what McNulty means when he says the US hasn't beaten this level of opposition before but can still play a numbers game. Twelve seconds from a medal isn't the story here; a team with actual tactical options against Remco Evenepoel and Mathieu van der Poel is.
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