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Continues: Viktória Chladoňová won the under-23 world title in a two-rider sprint against…
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On the final lap of the Women Under-23 Road Race, Isabella Holmgren (Canada) tried to drop Viktória Chladoňová (Slovakia) before the sprint finish
Jackie Tyson
Holmgren told Ava to hit the penultimate climb harder, then launched everything she had off the back of it. Chladoňová followed anyway, which means the blueprint wasn't the problem — the legs were.
Ava delivered exactly what was asked, by Holmgren's own account "a really, really strong climb," and Isabella still couldn't create a gap on the first climb of the last lap. She said as much herself: a sprint finish was "not ideal for me." That's not a rider second-guessing tactics — it's a rider who executed the plan and got read anyway, conceding the sprint before it even happened.
Sources
'If I had the legs, then I would have been alone' - Canadian star Isabella Holmgren's blueprint for gold turns to silver in women's U23 road race at Road Worlds | Cyclingnews'I did everything I could' – Isabella Holmgren takes bittersweet Worlds silver in front of home crowd | Cycling Weekly

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