When not even a late crash might cease Matej Mohorič (Slovenia) from blasting to a solo victory within the 2023 Gravel World Championships forward of Florian Vermeersch (Belgium) and Connor Swift (Nice Britain), it rounded off a surprising second half of the season that had already seen Mohorič win a 3rd stage of the Tour de France, the Tour de Pologne total and levels of the Renewi Tour and CRO Race. That summer time and autumn, it appeared he could not cease elevating his arms within the air.
This time round, it is a very totally different story.
For Mohorič, the Gravel Worlds Championships is the final probability saloon to try to salvage one thing from his near-disastrous 2025 season. Or because the Bahrain Victorious racer advised Wielerflits just lately, “I even hit my finest kind ever just a few occasions this 12 months, however then one thing at all times went terribly flawed.”
After driving the Gravel World Championships, Mohorič will participate within the Japan Cup on Saturday, October 18, to drag down the curtain on his racing 12 months. But it surely’s on Sunday in Limburg that he is hoping to hit the jackpot.
“It is an essential objective for me. I am most likely one of many favorites. Possibly not the favourite, however I feel I can compete for an excellent consequence,” Mohorič stated.
Wanting again on a winless 12 months – one thing that he solely beforehand suffered as soon as within the final decade, through the pandemic-struck season of 2020 – Mohorič stated that each time he discovered himself taking a few steps ahead in 2025, he then discovered himself taking two steps again. The primary highlights have been a 3rd place within the final stage of the Tour de France and a fifth place within the GP de Québec – meagre takings for a racer of his stature.
Likewise, he is making an attempt to place a optimistic spin on what has already been a really lengthy season, which began approach again in late January with two Spanish one-day races and can solely finish with the final race of the street calendar, the Japan Cup.
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