Topsport Vlaanderen-Baloise has a shock after the team time trial at the World Championships in Richmond. While the riders actually had to sit in the hot seat, most were staying with Jelle Wallays who needed it.

Wallays had to go deep in the team time trial. Immediately after the finish his teammates and a soigneur accompanied him to a garage where it was slightly colder and the rider could get better. He was hyperventilating for a long time and a doctor was brought in to take care of him. Only after a few minutes he was again his usual self.

"I really gave everything in the team time trial," Wallays told Het Nieuwsblad. "My position was behind Victor Campenaerts in the team, a small guy. And you feel you're wasting a lot of energy. Moreover, it was very hot and I always have a hard time in those conditions. In the last kilometer, we lost two guys and we still had to give everything to reach that finish with four. I had previously already had a tough moment. But yes, I was the fourth and last man and had to give everything. Immediately after the finish, the light went out. I really had to pick myself up and I think I had a minute or two when I did not know of the world."

Wallays came back to his senses and looked back on the race. "I'm glad we were sixteenth and the best pro continental team in the ranking. I feel good again now. It is not the first time this happens to me. Even when I was U23, the lights went out after a race. Then I was even taken to hospital. Now it was not so dramatic."