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Road World Championships 2021: Strava data shows brutality of race around FlandersRemco Evenepoel, Michael Valgren, Dylan van Baarle and more posted their rides to the site
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Thomas Voeckler: 'We wanted to attack earlier than everyone else at Worlds so they would think we were idiots'French boss happily accepts fine for coaching Julian Alaphilippe when it wasn't permitted
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'I don't want to become a robot': Julian Alaphilippe's second rainbow jersey is another triumph for pure bike racingThe Frenchman was relentless in the defence of his world title
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'S**t, it's up to me now': Michael Valgren 'saves the day' for Danish Worlds hopesWith a stacked team, much was expected of Denmark, who suffered many misfortunes during the men's road race, but still came up with a bronze medal
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Crashes mar Ethan Hayter's Worlds leaving 'missed opportunity' feelingThe Brit had planned to get in a move up the road on the finishing circuit to give himself a 'headstart'
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Tom Pidcock says Belgians made it 'near impossible' for Wout van Aert to win Worlds as Brit rides to impressive sixthThe 21-year-old Brit says the atmosphere in Belgium was 'like a football match'
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Five talking points from the women's elite World Championships 2021 road raceThe Netherlands finally lose their grip on the rainbow jersey, fantastically dramatic route and more from the first elite road race
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Marianne Vos: 'Silver was all I could do' as Dutch spell over rainbow jersey is brokenEverything had gone perfectly, Vos says, until the last few metres when Balsamo couldn't be brought to heel
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Worlds win was 'revenge for this season' says Elisa Balsamo, who now sets sights on finishing her degreeThe Italian has come close often this year and was also disappointed by her Olympic Games performance, so knuckled down for the Worlds and comes away with the rainbow jersey
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Road World Championships 2021:Italian Elisa Balsamo outsprints Marianne Vos to take the rainbow jerseyThe 2016 Junior champion comes of age beating Marianne Vos to rainbow glory
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Zoe Bäckstedt keeps composed until finish line tears to take rainbow jersey as dad Magnus watches on from the boothBäckstedt reveals she had a slow puncture for the entire race
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Road World Championships 2021: Elite men’s road race start listAll the names taking part in the 2021 elite men's World Championships road race in Leuven, Belgium
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'It's just not feasible': The uphill battle for Tao stagiaire Red Walters to even get to the Worlds start lineThe 22-year-old had a place in the U23 road race but for riders attending solo it means carrying their own bottles and going along to pre-race manager's meetings
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Zoe Bäckstedt takes the Junior women’s rainbow jersey after an exemplary British display in LeuvenAfter taking silver in the time trial Bäckstedt won a two-woman sprint to prove herself a dominant force
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Ethan Hayter: 'I think everyone knows Tom Pidcock is the leader' at Flanders World ChampionshipsThe 23-year-old doesn't rule out his own chances, or Mark Cavendish's, and is nervous and excited about the British squad's multiple options for victory this year
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'People think I just sit behind eight people and sprint, I can race,' says Cavendish ahead of return to WorldsThe Manxman confirms he also plans to ride the British National Championships later this year
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Filippo Baroncini triumphant in men's Under-23 road race at World ChampionshipsThe Italian star launched a brutal attack late on to take the U23 title
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Road World Championships 2021: Elite women’s road race start listList of starters for the elite women's road race at the 2021 UCI Road World Championships in Flanders on Saturday September 25
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Intensity, 'idiots' and a broken spoke: GB junior men secure top 10 in Worlds road race but residual hunger remainsThe young Brits showed themselves well in the Flanders road race, happy with their performance but still left with thoughts of what could have been
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Lizzie Deignan on Patrick Lefevere: 'I'm pleased he has no interest in women's cycling, we have no interest in him either'The Brit slaps down the Deceuninck - Quick-Step boss before turning her focus to trying to win another rainbow jersey
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Rwanda will host the 2025 Road World ChampionshipsThis is the first time an African nation will host the World Championships
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Ethan Vernon: The ups and downs and the patience required en route to the promised land of WorldTour stardomPart of the Tokyo TP squad before winning a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir, Ethan Vernon's time is nearly here
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Jeopardy, drama and the antidote to archaism: GB riders give their verdict on mixed relay TTWhat do they like about the odd one out of the World Championships? And what would they change, if anything, about the event?
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Tony Martin: 'Twice I was lying in the ambulance, the dad of two daughters, you start questioning if it’s really worth it'In his last ever race, the German won gold in the Worlds mixed relay TT and afterwards reflected on a glittering career
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Germany dominate the mixed relay at the World Championships in Tony Martin's last ever race before retiringThe Germans were the strongest across the board after the Italians faded in the last leg
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Eddy Merckx says that if Belgium have one leader for World Championships Evenepoel should not rideThe Belgian cycling legend has said that the young talent is not fit to ride in a support role for Wout van Aert
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17-year-old Brit Josh Tarling: not boring, not bad on a bike either, after claiming silver in junior men's time trialThe 17-year-old Brit took silver, GB's second medal of this Worlds, in the junior men's time trial
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Days after being injured in an attempted burglary, young star Cian Uijtdebroeks suffered through Worlds junior time trialThe Belgian tore a muscle as he ran to trigger a burglar alarm after spotting an intruder on his roof
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Road World Championships 2021: How does the mixed relay time trial work?The new discipline made its debut in Yorkshire and is a unique perspective on racing
