This Sunday's elite men's road race at the UCI Road World Championships will bring the curtain down on what's already been a hugely exciting and enjoyable week in Innsbruck, Austria.
With the elite women's road race taking place on Saturday, Sunday's race then brings proceedings to a close, and it's really anyone's guess which rider will stand on top of the podium in the rainbow jersey come Sunday evening.
Anyone's guess, but Cyclingnews will give it a go. Here, then, in the video above, are our 10 riders most likely to pull on the rainbow jersey.
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France's Julian Alaphilippe would certainly be a hugely popular winner in Innsbruck this weekend. The 26-year-old can boast taking two Tour de France stage wins, victory at the Clasica San Sebastian, a stage and the overall at the Tour of Britain, and then a stage and the overall again at the Tour of Slovakia in the past couple of months alone.
The polka-dot jersey he won at the Tour, meanwhile, suggests that the climbs on the Austrian course shouldn't pose him too many problems, either.
Alaphilippe also has a strong teammate in Romain Bardet, who appears to be coming into form nicely in time for the Worlds. A mention, too, for a third member of the French national team, Thibaut Pinot, who won two mountain stages at the recent Vuelta a España.
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