Nicolas Roche is one of the riders in something of a new-look Irish World Road Championships team announced today.
Irish cycling team World Road Championships, Bergen
The Irish elite men’s and women’s line-ups have been named for the World Road Championships next week.
In the men’s team for the road race are: Conor Dunne, Dan Martin, Ryan Mullen, Nicolas Roche, Damien Shaw and Sean McKenna.
Roche is the only one riding the TT. Ryan Mullen has opted out of the test, which features some climbing that would suit him.
The selection means while Cycling Ireland has picked the maximum six riders for the road race, one of the two TT spots Ireland is entitled to has not been filled.
And on the women’s team for the Bergen Worlds are Eileen Burns and Lydia Boylan. Burns rides the TT and Boylan the road race.
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Ireland could have sent a maximum of three riders to the women's road race and two to the TT.
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Obvious names absent from the men's team are those of Sam Bennett and Philip Deignan.
Bennett has been ill of late, a development that rules him out of these Worlds.
No statement has been made about Deignan not being included in the team.
However, he has abandoned his most recent races with Team Sky. And he would not have been left off the team if he wanted to go to Bergen and felt he had the form.
Cycling Ireland had last week already announced the U23 and junior line-ups for the Worlds in Bergen.
In the U23 team are Mark Downey, Daire Feely, Michael O’Loughlin, Darragh O’Mahony, Adam Stenson and Matthew Teggart.
O’Loughlin will only ride the TT, while Downey will ride both the road race and TT. The others will ride the road race only.
Meanwhile, Luke Smith, Ben Walsh and PJ Doogan will ride the junior road race. And Walsh and Xeno Young will compete in the junior TT.
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