Team Sunweb and Boels Dolmans face off in Worlds TTT
(Cyclingnews.com)

Team Sunweb and Boels Dolmans are set to clash once again in the team time trial at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships on Sunday, as both try to out-do the other for the world title. Coryn Rivera, who was part of Sunweb`s winning team time trial in Bergen last year, believes her squad`s ability to work as a unit while racing over a flat parcours will help them defend their title. `We have really good pacing, and we use each other´s strengths to the best of our ability,` Rivera told Cyclingnews on the eve of the championships race. `We are a good team, and we know each other well, and that`s important when racing a team time trial.`ADVERTISEMENT Sunweb have gone up against Boels Dolmans in every team time trial on the Women`s WorldTour this season. Boels Dolmans won the world title in Doha in 2016, a victory that ended Specialized-Lululemon/Velocio-SRAM´s four-year grip on the championship race. Since then, Boels have been the top team to beat in the discipline, until last year`s Bergen World Championships where Sunweb stormed to victory with 12 seconds to spare, and took their first world title in the team time trial. It was a victory that surprised the whole team. `It was a crazy feeling because we didn´t expect to win last year,` Rivera said. `We wanted to win, but the main thing was that we were very focused on our own race. We knew that we had to be the best that we could and be as smooth as possible. We were a unit and adjusted to anything that came our way. `What happened last year was very special, especially because we were kind of the underdogs, and so it was cool to unseat the defending champions, and upset the usual trend.` You can read more at Cyclingnews.com