Montreal is where Woods took bronze at the 2018 Worlds, the first Canadian men's road-race medal in 34 years — which is exactly why nowhere else would have pulled him back. «If the world championships were anywhere else but Montreal, I wouldn't be doing them» he said, calling it a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He's spent the year racing gravel since walking away "bruised and disillusioned," and he's already ruled out any further road return once this race ends. One start line, one unfinished piece of business.

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