Juan Ayuso leads Spain’s selection at the elite men’s road race at the Road World Championships, and he’s going all out for the rainbow jersey on Sunday.
The Spaniard is taking on the elite road race for the second time in his career and heads up an eight-man selection for the 267.5km race.
While defending champion Tadej Pogačar and time trial champion Remco Evenepoel might be the outright favourites for the win in Kigali, Ayuso doesn’t want to settle for anything less than the rainbow jersey.
He scored two solo stage wins at the Vuelta a España amid a public falling-out with his team, results which nonetheless underlined his form ahead of the Worlds.
The tough conditions of the World Championships route – 6,000 metres of climbing and seven hours of racing – will only be made more difficult by the altitude, Ayuso said. It’s something that will take its toll on riders who aren’t used to racing all day at the altitude of high Alpine passes.
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