{"id":177575,"date":"2020-04-27T13:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=177575"},"modified":"2020-04-27T13:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T13:08:01","slug":"the-digital-swiss-5-is-over-5-races-5-days-3-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/04\/27\/the-digital-swiss-5-is-over-5-races-5-days-3-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"The Digital Swiss 5 Is Over! 5 Races, 5 Days, 3 Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The coronavirus pandemic forced the cycling world to find a new approach to racing. Thus The Tour de Suisse, ROUVY and Velon joined forces to create \u201cThe Digital Swiss 5\u201d. It only took a couple of weeks and the series of five races was born. It was definitely different from a standard race series, however, it was still truly entertaining. 16 webcams collected live footage of the cyclists competing and ROUVY displayed various performance information of the riders including the likes of Julian Alaphilippe and Greg van Avermaet.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first race in the series was won by Rohan Dennis (Team Ineos). The world time trial champion laid back in the opening 10 km. However, he caught up with his opponents near the summit of the first climb and rode away easily. In the end, he beat the second Nicholas Roche (Team Sunweb) by 1:09. James Whelan (EF Pro Cycling) finished third, 1:27 behind Dennis.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Greg van Avermaet was almost heat by a car. Terrible organization of the race. Any comments by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCI_cycling?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UCI_cycling<\/a>? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DigitalSwiss5?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DigitalSwiss5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8py9Qc1B5Z\">pic.twitter.com\/8py9Qc1B5Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Salim Makeev (@GosuSM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GosuSM\/status\/1253350254642069512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Greg van Avermaet playing the GTA<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second race was won by the Swiss time trial star Stefan K\u00fcng (Groupama-FDJ). Can you see the pattern here? Rohan Dennis skipped day 2. So, everyone expected the likes of Greg van Avermaet (CCC Team) and Sam Bennett (Deceuninck \u2013 Quick-Step) to battle it out. However, Stefan K\u00fcng had other ideas. He rode away almost immediately and didn\u2019t give a chance to anyone. He crossed the virtual finishing line with 47 seconds to spare. Filippo Ganna (Team Ineos) finished second and Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) claimed the third place.<\/p>\n<p>It was third time lucky for Nicholas Roche who finished second in the first race. In race 3, however, he took a solo win. It needs to be said that Pierre Latour (Ag2r La Mondiale) held a commanding lead until being disconnected due to a home trainer calibration problem. Ilnur Zakarin (CCC) finished second and Larry Warbasse (Ag2r La Mondiale) was third.<\/p>\n<lite-youtube videoid=kF6SPRcWN_M params=\"enablejsapi=1\" style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/kF6SPRcWN_M\/maxresdefault.webp');\"><\/lite-youtube>\n<p>In the fourth race, it was Stefan K\u00fcng who shined once more. The Swiss pro caught and overtook Michael Matthews in the final 2 km. The Australian rider finished second, 7 seconds behind Stefan K\u00fcng. Ethan Hayter (Team Ineos) finished third.<\/p>\n<p>The last race was dominated by Rohan Dennis. Once again, the Australian led for the majority of the day. And Nicholas Roche finished second once more. Jonas Vingegaard (Jumbo-Visma) finished third.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-177580\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2020\/04\/Roche-Rouvy.JPG.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1773\" height=\"944\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It definitely seems like the TT specialists have a commanding advantage over the rest of the playing field in the virtual races. Do you think these results could affect real-world racing as well? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coronavirus pandemic forced the cycling world to find a new approach to racing. 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