TakeWorlds4 weeks ago
Tom Pidcock leads Great Britain's elite men's road race in Rwanda. But the team fielded no elite women's road race entry at all, betting instead on Cat Ferguson and Zoe Bäckstedt at U23 level.
Ferguson is the first rider since Bäckstedt herself to win the World Junior road double, yet she lines up in Rwanda as a U23 for both the road race and time trial. Bäckstedt was selected for the time trial only — not the road race. That's a squad built for 2027 and beyond, not for a medal push this September — Great Britain skipped the elite women's road race entirely rather than send a weaker entry.
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