Latvian National Championships 
Welcome to the Latvian National Time Trial. We have 7 professional riders competing today:
Rider | TT | Prologue | Resistance | Smukulis | 70 | 70 | 66 | Belevics | 69 | 69 | 65 | Kanepejs | 69 | 69 | 70 | Budenieks | 63 | 61 | 73 | Dakteris | 62 | 62 | 70 | Eislers | 60 | 60 | 67 | Flaksis | 56 | 56 | 70 |
The top 3 are evenly matched. Belevics holds the jersey at the moment.
The defending champion passes through the first time check with a 28 second lead over Kanepejs
Smukulis is just 1 second behind at the same check. Looks like it will be between these two.
At the second check Smukulis is still 1 second off the pace.
Kanepejs is now 45 seconds behind so he is out of it.
We go to the finish. Belevics finishes in 1’06’01.
And Smukulis finishes on the same time. It is going to go to tenths of a second.
The results come in - Belevics retains his Latvian TT title by the narrowest of margins.
Results
Rank | Name | Team | Time | 1 | Arturs Belevics | Carlsberg - Danske Bank | 1h06'01 | 2 | Gatis Smukulis | NENT Racing p/b Hootsuite | s.t. | 3 | Deins Kanepejs | T-Mobile | + 1'17 | 4 | Kristaps Budenieks | SPAR - Siam Cement | + 3'42 | 5 | Janis Dakteris | Aker - MOT | + 4'46 | 6 | Sandis Eislers | SPAR - Siam Cement | + 5'16 | 7 | Andzs Flaksis | Minions | + 7'09 |
Man Game: McCormick Pro Cycling
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