Ben King (USA) crashes with Slovenia's Primoz Roglic at the 2018 elite men's Worlds road race
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Rozemarijn Ammerlaan (Netherlands) flanked by Camilla Alessio (Italy) and Elynor Backstedt (Great Britain).
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Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) attacks
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Anna van der Breggen (Netherlands)
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The UCI World Championships women's road race in Innsbruck
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Bjorg Lambrecht and Marc Hirschi on the U23 road race podium
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The 2018 UCI Road World Championships elite men's road race in Innsbruck
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Peter Kennaugh (Great Britain) on the attack
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Roman Bardet (France)
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Canyon-SRAM beat Boels Dolmans and Sunweb to win the 2018 Worlds team time trial.
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Rohan Dennis on the front for BMC Racing
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Niki Terpstra celebrates his team time trial gold medal
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Marc Hirschi of Switzerland looks back as he nears the finish of the U23 road race
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Alejandro Valverde (Spain) expresses genuine shock at winning the world title after being forced to lead out the sprint
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Woods and Bardet look back to find Valverde has made it
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Tom Dumoulin missed the Worlds podium in fourth
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Tom Dumoulin (Netherlands) chases back to the three leaders
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Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) wins
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Laura Stigger sprints for the line
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Laura Stigger at the start of the women's junior road race
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The 2018 UCI Road World Championships elite men's road race in Innsbruck
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The under-23 road race gets underway at the Innsbruck Worlds.
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Rohan Dennis (Australia)
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Rohan Dennis shows off his gold medal from the 2018 UCI Road World championships time trial
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Annemiek van Vleuten (Netherlands)
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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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