Lotte Kopecky has finished all of it so this season. She received the Tour of Flanders for the second yr in a row and held the Tour de France maillot jaune for six levels earlier than coming second total to teammate Demi Vollering.
Together with her excellent efficiency on the ‘hellingen’ of Flanders and the Pyrenees, she’s proven a versatility matched solely by compatriot Wout van Aert. As Van Aert did final week, Kopecky heads into Sunday’s street race on the UCI Street World Championships with confidence in her standing as favorite.
Kopecky has arguably already bettered Van Aert’s efficiency by successful two world titles throughout this week’s Monitor World Championships within the days earlier than her street race, exhibiting her a number of skills within the Tremendous World Championships.
Kopecky can go into Sunday’s ladies’s street race with the arrogance of getting received three medals in a contest schedule organized to simulate subsequent yr’s Paris Olympic Video games schedule.
“Bodily all the pieces goes rather well, going into the street race with two world titles and a bronze medal,” Kopecky instructed Cyclingnews after gathering her Omnium bronze on the Chris Hoy Velodrome in Glasgow on Wednesday night.
“That is an excellent feeling to enter the street race. I do know I am the favorite. However I additionally began this championship on the monitor – I used to be truly fairly relaxed – and I additionally was a favorite right here. So within the subsequent few days, I’ll attempt to keep calm and never let individuals make me nervous.”
Kopecky has the benefit of getting seen how the boys’s street race performed out final weekend, when Mathieu van der Poel received alone, regardless of a late crash, beating Van Aert, Tadej Pogačar and Mads Pedersen.
The technical, punchy street race route in central Glasgow appears as if it was made for a rider who can win a world title in a factors race. The repeated high-watt efforts do not appear to faze Kopecky, and she or he is aware of it’s a prime alternative to grow to be world champion.
“I feel it is going to be very, very powerful. However yeah, I feel it is one thing that fits me,” she mentioned.
Kopecky, an completed multi-discipline rider who will goal each monitor and street at subsequent yr’s Olympic Video games in Paris, praised the mixed Worlds as a approach to restrict the bodily and psychological calls for of separate championships.
“I prefer it truly. Now it is only one peak and I can mix each – in any other case it is once more stretching the season to the second half of October or the tip of October and that makes it mentally perhaps tougher than this now.”