Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al.<\/a><\/p>\nInitially, it seemed that Gee-West was OK\u2013he rode to the hotel and it seemed he had been lucky. He said he would skip the TT and mixed relay but hoped to be good for the road race. But on Sept. 22, the national time trial champion gave a crummy update.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, the ribs didn\u2019t make it out of the crash on Sunday in one piece, so I won\u2019t be lining up for the individual time trial or the mixed team relay. I\u2019ll do everything I can to line up next Sunday for the road race in the best shape possible in front of the home crowd, and can\u2019t wait to see the Canadians rip it up across the rest of the events,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Boivin racing at home<\/p>\n
That meant Boivin would race. He\u2019s had a tough year with injuries and bad luck, but he was stoked to be racing on home roads. Boivin, who was born in Saguenay, and grew up in St. Hubert, was happy about racing, despite the circumstances.<\/p>\n
\u201cI appreciate Derek\u2019s honesty in the situation, I know it\u2019s very hard for him to pull out of his home worlds,\u201d Boivin said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to it. I\u2019m looking to have a good race and represent Canada well on home turf.\u201d<\/p>\n
Boivin had just finished the Renewi Tour\u2013the five day stage race in Belgium, when he got the news and came back to Canada to prepare for the worlds. He race again in France, then the Grands Prix in Canada. Boivin is a three-time champion, and we can all remember that amazing ride he had at Paris-Roubaix, when wearing the national championship jersey, he finished 9th.<\/p>\n
Currently, Boivin doesn\u2019t have a contract, so maybe some of this TV time helps.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sad for Derek,\u201d Boivin said before the race. \u201cBut I missed the Tour due to injury and sometimes your number gets called and there\u2019s nothing you can do about it. I\u2019m super happy and it\u2019s going to be a great day.\u201d<\/p>\n
This is not his final race of the season either. \u00a0\u201cI will stay here until Friday and then I\u2019ll head to Germany.\u201d (The Sparkassen M\u00fcnsterland Giro takes place next week.)<\/p>\n
CBC Gem<\/a> is broadcasting the race, and Canadian Cycling Magazine is on the ground making all kinds of content for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal\u2019s Guillaume Boivin may have been a last-minute replacement for the road worlds, but he\u2019s making good use…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[220587,49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-911801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-2026-road-worlds","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}