Road World Championships: Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas in Team Sky line-up

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Geraint Thomas
Geraint Thomas wore yellow at this year's Tour de France after winning the opening individual time trial in Dusseldorf
UCI World Road Championships 2017
Host: Bergen, Norway Dates: 17-24 September
Coverage: Live coverage of the elite men's and women's time trials and road races on BBC TV, BBC Red Button, Connected TV, BBC Sport website & app - full broadcast schedule here

Geraint Thomas will compete for Team Sky in Sunday's team time trial at the Road World Championships in Bergen, despite having pulled out of the Great Britain team for the road race.

Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana winner Chris Froome, Owain Doull, Vasil Kiryienka, Michal Kwiatkowski and Gianni Moscon are also selected.

Team Sky's Brett Lancaster said: "The guys are going to be really motivated after the Vuelta win."

The championships begin on Sunday.

Thomas was the highest-placed British rider at last week's Tour of Britain, his first race since breaking his collarbone in the Tour de France in July.

British Cycling head coach Iain Dyer said on Tuesday that the withdrawal of riders, including the Welshman, from his GB squad was "unfortunate but understandable".external-link

He added: "We are coming to the end of a long season for the road riders and injury and illness becomes inevitable so their decisions to withdraw themselves from selection are respected."

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  • Comment posted by U16635582, at 14:15 13 Sep 2017

    GB have next to no chance in the road race, other than from a breakaway. It is not like 2011 when they were all working for Cav. Why kill yourself over 276.5 when you are still returning from injury? It is a bit different to a 31km TTT. Anyone questioning G's patriotism doesn't get it.

  • Comment posted by Dave, at 15:24 13 Sep 2017

    #22

    No, GT has, in conjunction with British cycling, and his actual employer, Sky, come to a joint decision that he's not fit enough to race in both events, and that he's better used in the TTT - where Sky are flying the flag for GB.

    Reality is that the road race doesn't suit the GB squad this year. It's basically a dead-flat course and Cav isn't available. GT would be wasted there.

  • Comment posted by Bobbysmith, at 13:38 13 Sep 2017

    Why comment on a cycling article with names of people who are well known to cycling fans and say you don't know them? Like me commenting on a netball article.

  • Comment posted by Oddmule, at 14:42 13 Sep 2017

    @Bazinga - you realise cyclists in groups ride 2 or 3 abreast for your safety and theirs yeah? You are supposed to give at least 1.5m when overtaking, so a group of 3x3 is a lot easier for you to pass than one line of 9. The time you spend overtaking, on the other side of the road, is reduced by two-thirds. You should thank them, not post ignorant comments on here.

  • Comment posted by chadders, at 13:34 13 Sep 2017

    You obviously don't follow cycling then!!

  • Comment posted by Stuart, at 16:51 13 Sep 2017

    coming back from Injury which would I prefer if I was Thomas? a 276.5KM RR as part of a GB team with little chance of winning, or a 31KM TTT that you have a very good chance of winning as part of team sky? To me this is a no brainer from G.

  • Comment posted by TrojanOtter, at 14:41 13 Sep 2017

    Hoping Sky smash it.
    No problems with G admitting that he's not fit enough current to back up the TTT effort to go for individual honours and hence freeing up a space in the GB line up for someone raring to go.

    p.s. Stop feeding the trolls. Never heard of any of them, but yet will insist Froome is on drugs and a Kenyan.

  • Comment posted by TheBigPL, at 14:34 13 Sep 2017

    always one eh bazinga? tool

  • Comment posted by U16635582, at 14:04 13 Sep 2017

    1: You must have a very short memory then because you keep commenting about Froome, or at least you keep making yourself look stupid on HYS

  • Comment posted by whatshappeningtotheworld, at 17:36 13 Sep 2017

    @22 Jotnar__ING "So Thomas thinks he can cherry pick when he bothers to turn up? He should be dropped for this lack of commitment."

    Well I can see why your post was down voted 32 to 0. What a load of tripe! You clearly haven't a clue about cycling or the commitment of its participants, including GT.

  • Comment posted by Ian, at 13:46 13 Sep 2017

    @ 2 & 3

    Don't worry. He always does it. The answer is in his screen name!

  • Comment posted by steveblackcat, at 14:14 13 Sep 2017

    "So why does the Team time trial not run with National Teams?"

    Because professional cyclists don't have the spare time to train together as a national team to gel as a team time trial unit?

  • Comment posted by Sonmi_451, at 14:32 13 Sep 2017

    Well Froomey won the ITT at the Vuelta and G at the Tour, so they are pretty useful.

    There is of course a certain Dutchman who will take some beating, but bring it on!!

  • Comment posted by Stefano di Parksio, at 17:28 13 Sep 2017

    @ 20. Posted by Oddmule

    Cyclists should under no circumstances cycle three abreast.
    Cyclists should only cycle two abreast when conditions allow.
    Read the Highway Code.

    I'm a cyclist, on one lane country roads I give a mouthful to 2 abreast cyclists.

    Coming back from injury G is right to go for a shorter event.

  • Comment posted by James, at 14:31 13 Sep 2017

    If the course doesn't suit GT then it's not worth him taking part - he's a potential winner if he's on his day and an escape is possible. It's undulating but opportunities to jump away are relatively rare - if a team wants a sprint (or more than one do) then I think we're looking at a bunch sprint - the climb on the circuit doesn't look long enough to me.

  • Comment posted by JdlovinfF1, at 20:18 13 Sep 2017

    I have to say that it is good to see GT is turning up to do his bit shame Cav cannot do the same.

    Go Froomey, GT and Team GB.

  • Comment posted by Sonmi_451, at 14:50 13 Sep 2017

    Like some others (@11 for example) I don't think GB is geared up for a serious tilt at the road race.

    I reckon, unless the weather is really against them, the Colombians could go really well. Gaviria for the win, anyone?

  • Comment posted by Get the miles in, at 21:05 13 Sep 2017

    There is every chance GT could medal.....hope he does.

  • Comment posted by LoganHurata, at 16:30 14 Sep 2017

    I have to admit there is something nice about cycling and its community. Seeing CF and GT committing themselves to the Sky team seems to be about wanting to help their teammates getting some glory. Both for different reasons could have drop the events and no one would have questioned it. There seems to be a genuine spirit of community isn't found in other sports.

  • Comment posted by JdlovinfF1, at 10:44 14 Sep 2017

    @ 28 & 33

    This is a HYS about professional cyclists road racing and doing TT's not about Joe Public riding their push bikes on roads/footpaths.

    There are other places to debate the law and the Highway code, just so you know what it says in the Highway Code is not necessarily the law.

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