For a man who professed to be riding the mixed relay team time trial at the World Championships in order to get to know the course for Sunday’s elite road race, Michael Matthews did a good impression of someone who really cared about Wednesday’s event.

The 33-year-old squatted after the finish line, waiting for the final nations to finish their ride, waiting to find out if he was to claim an elite rainbow jersey for the first time.

“It’s massive,” he explained after he’d got his hands on his gold medal. “For us, we don’t get many opportunities to represent Australia, and to do it as a team… I won this event when it was the trade teams, with Sunweb, but we didn’t get a rainbow jersey, so to be here, with my national teammates [is good]. I think we did well with the men, and then the women just brought it home. Today was the perfect day, it couldn’t have been much better.

“We knew it would be a really hard start to the time trial, and that we’d be on the limit,” she continued. “It’s difficult to really know how to pace it on the sweet spot, and unfortunately we went a little bit over on the first steep climb, we put Ruby [Roseman-Gannon] into the red too early, and once you’re there, we eventually had to cut our losses and accept that we had to go down to two.

“It’s hard to lean into the team aspect on a course like that,” Derek Gee of Canada explained. “If you do a pull and swap off, you’re still going uphill. There’s little recovery, there’s little time to get into a rhythm and have a more efficient time trial. It was a brute strength course. It’s interesting, it’s our first time doing it as Canada, a tough one to start one, but I like that it’s a different course every year.”

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