The BMC Racing Team is sticking to a tried and true formula for the 40km UCI Road World Championships team time trial, bringing back five of the six members who won the race last year in Richmond.
Rohan Dennis, Daniel Oss and Manuel Quinziato - all of whom were also on the 2014 Worlds-winning team - and Taylor Phinney and Stefan Küng are joined by newcomer Joey Rosskopf. Rosskopf will also compete for the US national team in the elite men's road race.
The team face reduced competition in the event. After threats of a wholesale boycott by WorldTour teams, ultimately 10 squads agreed to compete, including the top eight teams from 2015 plus AG2R La Mondiale and Katusha.
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BMC Sports Director Jackson Stewart says the team has a 'very good chance' of defending their world title.
"As defending champions there is a lot of expectation on our team to win for the third consecutive year but I think we're lining up with a very good chance of defending our title. We have a great team of pure individual time trialists, who together have really perfected the art of the team time trial, so much so that it was difficult to make the final selection of six riders," Stewart said.
The BMC team won the eight-man 20.9km team time trial at the Eneco Tour last month with all six of the Worlds team plus Greg Van Avermaet and Tom Bohli. With the Belgian focused on the elite men's road race, Bohli will act as a reserve for the six-man team in Doha.
— BMC Racing Team (@BMCProTeam) October 7, 2016
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