Norway’s Tobias Vos won a stunning gold in the cycling water cycle

When 25-year-old Tobias Voss crossed the finish line, who had never won a major international race at the senior level before the World Cup, he had completed 34.2 kilometers in Wollongong, Australia, in 40 minutes 2.78 seconds.

– What a race he’s doing, exclaims SVT sports guru Thomas Lovkvist.

The champion was the seventh-place finisher

After about a quarter of an hour, the two biggest threats, the Swiss Stephane Kung and the Belgian Remco Evenpoel, finished with even worse times. When defending champion Filippo Ganna finished seventh shortly after, it was all too clear afterward: World Champion Tobias Vos was a bit of a hottie.

– I feel like I’m in a dream. It’s… I don’t get it, it’s unbelievable. I would have been happy with the top ten, he said in the official victory interview.

When I came here I had good self-confidence and good form. But this is more than I could ever dream of. I’m going to try to enjoy it, but first I think I need to admit that it happens.

Evenpoel took bronze right after the Vuelta

Remco Evenepoel won the Grand Tour Vuelta a España just a week ago, the first Belgian cyclist to win one of the three biggest stage races since 1978.

– I made a stable race but in the end two more people were stronger. I really gave it my all and there is some disappointment that there are such small distances but there was nothing I could do about it,” Evenpoul told his stable team Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl.

No Swede participated.