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Elisa Longo Borghini attacked with 15.3km to go, knowing Vollering and Niewiadoma-Phinney would likely come around her. She was right — they passed her and rode clear to gold and silver, four seconds ahead at the line. Bronze was the outcome, not the plan; the plan was to make them work for it.
She raced into that move on tendinitis in her right knee, picked up over the ITT and mixed relay, which had her cramping in the other leg from compensating. «If you don't risk, you don't win the race... I don't like to stay passive. I like to hurt the others and to make them suffer. They have to deserve the win,» she said after. It's her fourth Worlds road race podium, matching Zurich, Imola and Valkenburg — but this one came from a body that had nothing left to spend and spent it anyway.
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