Sentence examples for mountain trial from inspiring English sources
Froome was equally impressive in the individual time trials, finishing second by 12 seconds to the world champion time trialer, Tony Martin of Omega Pharma-Quick Step, then winning a shorter mountain trial on Stage 17. Tall and gangly, Froome is not a thing of beauty on the bike.
Stefano Garzelli won the 16th stage of the Giro d'Italia, a mountain time trial, ahead of the world champion Cadel Evans.
Lance Armstrong surged to the overall lead in the Tour de Suisse yesterday after an overwhelming victory in a rare mountain time trial in Crans Montana, Switzerland.
"There is more climbing all round and a mountain time trial which is something they haven't had in the Tour since I turned professional.
On Thursday the final phase of racing in the Giro begins with a 20km mountain time trial from Mori to Polsa, just to the east of Lake Garda.
The leader Alberto Contador all but secured victory in the Vuelta a España when he finished second in the crucial Stage 20 mountain time trial from Granja de San Ildefonso to Alto de Navacerrada.
2001: The duel 6.44 from Ullrich Ullrich pushes Armstrong harder than in any of his other Tours, but the race is settled by the Texan's searing attack at l'Alpe d'Huez, and a mountain time trial win the following day.
He expects Quintana and Porte to be the danger men in Thursday's mountain time trial; the latter looks set to move up towards the podium but citing the Colombian as a threat seems a mere courtesy.
The race ends on flat ground in Brescia on Sunday with a 122-mile stage starting in Riese Pio X. Nibali earned his second stage victory, having won Thursday's mountain time trial.
The action on Thursday shifts down the valley past Chamonix to the 17km climb through the town of Combloux to the ski resort of Megève for the Tour's first mountain time trial since 2013, when Froome won a longer stage in the south of the Alps.
To add to the uncertainty, this is a different kind of Tour, with a route that offers conventional challenges such as Mont Ventoux alongside relative novelties such as a short mountain time trial, a brutal day out in the Jura, and a potential pitfall as early as day two's uphill finish in Cherbourg.
