The key moments captured from the past week's racing in Innsbruck
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Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) destroys the field to take another world title, this time in the junior men's road race (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Mikkel Bjerg (Denmark) in full flight, heading for his second successive victory in U23 Men's Individual Time Trial (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Alejandro Valverde (Spain) savouring victory in the Elite Men's Road Race (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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A select group on the lower slopes of Höttinger Höll in the elite men's road race (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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The elite men's peloton heads towards the final climb of Höttinger Höll (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Canyon-SRAM on their way to victory in the women's team time trial (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) soloing to victory in the elite women’s road race (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands) tackling the final climb on here way to victory in the elite women’s road race (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Rohan Dennis (Australia) on his way to victory in the elite men's individual time trial (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) passes through the stunning Austrian scenery on her way to the elite women's individual time trial title (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Pre-race favourite Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) takes victory in the junior men's individual time trial (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Alejandro Valverde (Spain), Romain Bardet (France) and Michael Woods (Canada) descend towards the finish of the elite men's road race in Innsbruck (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Rozemarijn Ammerlaan (Netherlands) on the start ramp, on her way to victory in the junior women's individual time trial (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Quick-Step Floors on their way to victory in the men's team time trial (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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The peloton passes through the narrow streets of Innsbruck old town (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Marc Hirschi (Switzerland) crosses the finish line in the Under 23 Mens Road Race (Image credit: Chris Auld)
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Michael Valgren (Denmark) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Michael Woods (Canada) attacks on the Höll climb (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Coryn Rivera (USA) (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Amy Pieters and Annemiek van Vleuten celebrate (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Alejandro Valverde (Spain) exploded with joy (Image credit: Justin Setterfield/Getty Images Sport)
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Julian Alaphilippe (France) comes in for eighth (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Ben King (USA) crashes with Slovenia's Primoz Roglic at the 2018 elite men's Worlds road race (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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Rozemarijn Ammerlaan (Netherlands) flanked by Camilla Alessio (Italy) and Elynor Backstedt (Great Britain). (Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Laura Stigger sprints for the line (Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Sport)
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Laura Stigger at the start of the women's junior road race (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The 2018 UCI Road World Championships elite men's road race in Innsbruck (Image credit: Bettini Photo)
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The under-23 road race gets underway at the Innsbruck Worlds. (Image credit: TDW)
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Rohan Dennis (Australia) (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Rohan Dennis shows off his gold medal from the 2018 UCI Road World championships time trial (Image credit: Getty Images)
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Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands) (Image credit: Getty Images)
And so it ends: eight magnificent days of racing around stunning Innsbruck, Austria, where the world champions in the disciplines of time trialling and road racing, at junior, under-23 and elite levels, were crowned.
The new world champions now have 12 months as custodians of their rainbow jerseys before we do it all again in Harrogate, Yorkshire, in the UK.
Can the Dutch women's team dominate again, as they have at the championships for the past two years? Will Spain's Alejandro Valverde still have the hunger, and indeed the legs, to defend his title, or will we see 2015, 2016 and 2017 road race world champion Peter Sagan take back 'his' rainbow jersey? And what kind of progression will we see from the junior riders, like Remco Evenepoel, who won both the time trial and the road race in the junior men's category?
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