Hello and welcome to live coverage of the World Championships men's road race from Doha. A 257.5km ride that starts with an out-and-back loop up the coast and into the desert, followed by seven laps of a 15.2km circuit around the Pearl, Qatar.
World Championships
Men | 16.10.2016
Completed
Road race
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Updated 16/10/2016 at 15:02 GMT
257.5km
After a very long neutral zone which took the best part of half an hour, Brian Cookson, the UCI President, waves the flag - a la Christian Prudhomme in the Tour - and finally gets this race under way.