The Katusha team are having a great season so far and now they have added the two top spots in Romandie. Full round up from Switzerland, Turkey and Yorkshire with reports, results, rider quotes and video. Alex Dowsett takes the Hour Record and we have more Giro d’Italia news. A very full EuroTrash Monday! TOP STORY: Dowsett Sets New World Hour RecordOn Saturday afternoon, Movistar’s Alex Dowsett set a new UCI Hour Record of 52.937 kilometers on the Manchester velodrome. Dowsett brought the record back to team manager Eusebio Unzu twenty-one years after Miguel Indurain in Bordeaux. The man from Essex kept to around 17.1 seconds per lap in the first half of the competition, the pace set by his coaches prior to the event, Dowsett ‘dangerously’ increased his pace towards 16.5s after 35 minutes in. However, the good signals from the Briton stayed until the very end and Dowsett finished his effort with relative freshness, improving Rohan Dennis’ previous mark by almost half a kilometer and coming just 103 meters short of the record of 53.040 kilometers taken by Miguel Indurain in 1994, under the old rules.After the ride Dowsett said: “In training, we only ever did like 35 minutes, so there was always those 25 minutes which were a bit of an unknown, but 30 minutes in, I was still feeling comfortably, the time was ticking away a lot quicker than I was expecting. I was scared of the suffering, but it wasn’t as bad as I expected....
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