He is currently the fastest time trialist in the world. And in this discipline the legitimate successor of the Swiss Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Leopard). We're talking about Tony Martin (Omega Pharma-Quick-Step). In the course of Cancellara's announcement that he wanted to attack the hourly world record next year, the reigning time trial world champion announced in an interview with readers of the Thuringian General Newspaper position taken.
“My goals are still clearly the time trial world title on the road and, in the distance, the 2016 Olympics in Rio, where the flat stretch along the Copacabana should suit me. My rivals Fabian Cancellara and Bradley Wiggins also intend to aim for the hour record. I observe that, but I also have these ambitions in the back of my mind: To be the fastest man in the world would be a nice title," Martin is quoted as saying here.
After the hour world record fell somewhat into oblivion in the last decade – after the Czech Ondrej Sosenka set the record in Moscow in 2005 – a new competition now seems to be in the offing thanks to the currently fastest time trialists in the world.
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