Gilbert: 'You always get the place you deserve in a team time trial'

Quick-Step Floors started the men's team time trial at the Bergen Road World Championships hoping to take a second consecutive world title but their chances were derailed after a fast start, when Niki Terpstra was distanced after just 20 kilometres of the 42.5-kilometre course. With Tony Martin now at Katusha-Alpecin and Marcel Kittel not on form and not in the six-rider line-up, Quick-Step could only finish fourth, 35 seconds down on winner Team Sunweb.

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Stephen Farrand
Head of News

Stephen is the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.