Cycling The lights are green. Victor Campenaerts-is-going-on 16 or 17 april, according to the UCI, an attempt at the world hour record, from the tables to bicycles. If he succeeded, then Campenaerts the fourth Belgian ever to a world hour record, realize.
More than 54,526 miles in one hour. That is the task Campenaerts within a good two months wait in Aguascalientes. The 27-year-old rider from team Lotto-Soudal wants to do better than current record holder Bradley Wiggins. The former winner of the Tour rode his performance four years ago, meet at a velodrome in London. In less good circumstances.
“you Know, Wiggins could be a lot of things not to choose,” said Campenaerts itself when we were visiting him were during his internship in Namibia. “His attack was an event: it had to be in his homeland, on a fixed day and with as many people as possible there. That was not in his favor. Moreover, it was the weather and the air pressure is not ideal. I have a statistic of one: the day before, would Wiggins with the same effort at 400 metres have been driven. Therefore, we choose for a time slot of a few days in Mexico.”
so It may not come as a surprise that Campenaerts in Aguascalientes nothing to chance will leave. That is not in his character. “I’m not a better athlete than Wiggins, but in better circumstances can I have him beat. And he can say that I was 55 kilometres to go, but ultimately it is my goal to one meter further away than he, that is enough,” said the winner of the Kristallen Fiets.
Campenaerts: “I want a piece of cycling history write”
“The world hour record is a unique part of the sport and record-breaking would be for me a way to get a small piece of cycling history to write. In our sport battled to victories, but in contrast to, for example, swimming or athletics, there is no culture of world records, except in this particular part. For myself the world hour record, the world time trial victory and the Olympic title in time trials the three dreams that I in the coming years, wants to pursue, starting with the world hour record.”
Campenaerts take in march, part in the Tirreno-Adriatico (13-19 march), his first race of the season, then the trip to Mexico. He leaves three weeks in advance to fully adapt. The Velodromo Bicentenario is located at 1,800 metres above sea level and was several times the scene for werelduurrecordpogingen. The most recent attempts dating back to last year when Martin Toft Madsen (Denmark) and Dion Beukeboom (the Netherlands) also ventured to the world hour record in the men’s and the Italian Vittoria Bussi a new world hour record (48,007 km) in the women settled.
