Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: She Has to Wait

Liane Lippert (Germany) looks back trying to encourage Mieke Kroger to stay on her wheel as the climb the last rise up towards the finish line in the Mixed Team Relay in Wollongong, NSW. Kroger had done a long hard pull across the flats but couldn't match the climbing prowess of her teammate Lippert.  As they climbed they yelled back and forth, knowing that their time would depend on the second woman to cross the line.  Clearly Lippert was getting frustrated but she knew she must wait for her teammate so that they could work together in hopes of making the final step of the podium currently occupied by the home team, Australia.  At the line they were just eight seconds slower than the Australians.  I doubt the eight seconds were lost at this moment, but it didn't help.  

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Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: One More Minute

Using what is now becoming obviously the winning stradegy, the Italians Vittoria Guazzini (the new U23 Women's Time Trial Champion) and Elisa Longo Borghini (the current World Road Champion - at least until Saturday) are inside the final kilometer with just about a minute left to get to the finish line in the Mixed Team Relay.  As strong as they were, they didn't quite have enough speed to better the time of their Swiss adversaries.  They came home just under three seconds behind the Swiss team for the Silver Medal.  Their time did knock the Australians into the Bronze medal position with just two other teams to finish behind them.  Coincidentally, they were the Netherlands and Germany, the only two teams to have ever won this event thus far.  The Netherlands had poor luck losing Bauke Mollema to a mechanical problem and then Annemiek Van Vleutin to a rather frightening crash just as she rolled down the start ramp.  Despite their misfortune, they did manage a fifth place today.

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Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: Finishing What the Men Started

Just like their male counterparts, Elise Chabbey and Nicole Koller added to their advantage, and posted a new best time as they finished their lap of the Mixed Team Relay.  And just like the men, they elected to use one of their teammates up as they came across the costal road inside of the final kilometers of the course.  Clearly, that was the winning stradegy as it was the Swiss who were able to fulfill their favored status and take home the Gold Medal in this relatively new event.  With the Swiss winning today, the gold medals have gone to three different European teams since the start of this event in 2019 in Great Britian.  

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Wollongong 2022, Mixed Team Relay: Setting It Up for the Women

Stefan Kung and Stefan Disseger were the two men who came together to the line for Switzerland.  The duo of Stefans posted the best time at the finish of the men's lap.  Since the time is taken on the second man to cross the line, it was not a problem that only two of the three finished together.  This duo was handing over a sixteen second advantage to the trio of Swiss women.  And it was a very strong line up of women that are just now waiting for the green light to start their race through the streets of Wollongong.  

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