Chris Froome will compete in the individual time trial for Great Britain at next week's World Championships in Norway, while Lizzie Deignan will lead the Great Britain women’s team in the road race.
Froome, who won the Vuelta a Espana, will be joined by Steve Cummings in the individual time trial. However neither Froome nor Cummings will ride the road race, where the British roster will be made up of Owain Doull, Pete Kennaugh, Adam Blythe, Mark Christian, Jon Dibben, Tao Geoghegan Hart, Ian Stannard, Ben Swift and Scott Thwaites.
The 2011 road world champion, Mark Cavendish, will not race at the Worlds, while Geraint Thomas is also not part of the final squad. Both Cavendish and Thomas only recently returned to racing after crashing out of the Tour de France in July.
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Deignan recently had her appendix removed but will head to the World Championships in Norway as the leader of the women’s team. She will be supported by Alice and Hannah Barnes, Elinor Barker, Dani King, Mel Lowther and Hayley Simmonds.
Junior cyclo-cross world champion and junior Paris-Roubaix winner Tom Pidcock is part of the junior men's team and will ride both the time trial and road race.
“Selection for this year’s road world championships was a difficult one due to the depth of talent we have in Great Britain across the board, which is a good position to be in,” said head coach Ian Dyer.
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