Despite its status as the biggest Swiss team, IAM decided to rest most of their stars for Sunday's road race and so only lined up two of their youngsters in today's Swiss time trial championships. Hence, the team was far from the win, with Patrick Schelling's fifth being their best result.

On the technical and demanding two loops of a 22 kilometer course around Roggliswil, Fabian Cancellara (TREK Factory) once more dominated the Swiss time trial championships.  Neither of the two IAM Cycling riders who were entered in the race managed to pull-off an upset.  Marcel Aregger finished in 8th place 5’10” behind while Patrick Schelling was 5e at 3’40” behind the multiple world champion and former Olympic champion Cancellara, who is a definite specialist in the discipline. 
 
Marcello Albasini, who was on-site along with Rubens Bertogliati, explained why Martin Elmiger, Reto Hollenstein, Marcel Wyss and Mathias Frank all withdrew from the event beforehand, and also discussed the performances of his young riders. 

“After the efforts of the Tour of Switzerland, and given how difficult the time trial course appeared to be, we set our priorities to focus on the road race this weekend and especially on the Tour de France.”
 
Marcel Aregger acknowledged how difficult it was. 

“The course was really hard with many changes of pace and rhythm.  It’s my first national championships for the time trial, and I did not manage to put in an outstanding performance, but I will take away the positive points of the day.  I managed to have exactly the same lap times on both my rounds, but I just did not have a high enough rhythm.” 

As far as the always modest Patrick Schelling was concerned, he was pleased to make some progress in a discipline that is not a specialty of his. 

“I did not find the right pace throughout the two rounds.  I’m not really an expert and must take note of the fact that I lost 3 minutes to Stefan Küng.  Nevertheless, I have made some progress, but I still have a lot of work to do before I can reach a high level as a time triallist.”