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Today's World Championship Road Race starts at 10h40 CET.
Edinburgh-Glasgow 271km
Expected finish time: 16h30-17h45 CET

Highest pcs.com ranked on the startlist are:

Pogacar 1, Evenepoel 2, Philipsen 4, Van Aert 5, M.Pedersen 7, Almeida 9, Skjelmose 10, Laporte 12, M.vd Poel 14, Kooij 23, Powless 24, Kung 30, Hirschi 32, Healy 38, Kristoff 39, Coquard 43, Trentin 45, Madouas 47, Matthews 48, Schmid 49

Bookies favs are:

**** vd Poel, van Aert, Evenepoel
*** Pogacar, Philipsen, M.Pedersen
** Asgreen, Laporte
* Van Baarle, Skjelmose, Kooij, Alaphilippe, Healy

The defending champion from Wollongong AUS 2022 is Evenepoel.

Watch out for next Friday's ITT worlds (Stirling-Stirling 48km):

Australia
(Vine, Dennis)
Austria
(Großschartner, Gamper)
Argentina
(Dotti, Dotti)
Belgium
(van Aert, Evenepoel)
Canada
(Zukowsky, Gee)
Colombia
(Vargas, Vargas)
Czech Republic
(Vacek, Otruba)
Denmark
(Bjerg, Asgreen)
France
(Cavagna, Armirail)
Germany
(Politt, Kämna)
Great Britain
(Thomas, Tarling)
Ireland
(Mullen, Healy)
Italy
(Ganna, Cattaneo)
Japan
(Todome, Todome)
Latvia
(Skujiņš, Skujiņš)
Luxembourg
(Kluckers, Kluckers)
Mauritius
(Rougier-Lagane, Mayer)
Netherlands
(van Emden, Hoole)
New Zealand
(Sexton, Fisher-Black)
Norway
(Wærenskjold, Foss)
Poland
(Maciejuk, Bodnar)
Portugal
(Oliveira, Almeida)
Slovenia
(Pogačar, Pogačar)
South Africa
(Gibbons, de Bod)
Spain
(Azparren, Azparren)
Switzerland
(Küng, Bissegger)
United States
(McNulty, Craddock)

Could not believe my eyes at a first glance but it's apparently true as it comes from pcs.com

The second oldest rider in the peloton today is Rien Schuurhuis (41, originally from Groningen) who officially represents... VATICAN!!! By the way, Vatican is referred to as Holy See but clearly there is a Vatican flag next to the name.

I checked he had changed his citizenship from NED to VAT two years ago, most likely to be able to compete in the Worlds. Unless he is a priest and got a secondment to the headquarter...