Spanish national trainer Javier Minguez has described the World Championships course in Richmond, Virginia, as one which is far more complicated and technical than he originally anticipated when he was driving around it.
Minguez went to see the 16.2 kilometre road race circuit and various time trial courses in May with the Spanish amateur coach, and as he told Cyclingnews last month, "The first eleven kilometres are almost completely flat, and to be honest we were looking at each other and saying 'why have we bothered coming here to see this?'"
"It looked like a good course for Mark Cavendish up until that point, although other people insisted that it was more for Peter Sagan."
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In fact, the last five kilometres, Minguez says, are another story altogether. "They're really quite complicated to handle, there are little climbs, corners, cobbles. It's very tricky."
"With 200 riders, it's going to be hard for them all to go through that part of the course in one group. There could be crashes, punctures…."
The last kilometre, he says, has "about 600 metres of climbing, and it's not that straightforward, then there's a slight corner to the left and it flattens out for the finish. It's good."
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