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World time trial champion 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tony Martin will look to retain his title for the third consecutive year, while Dominik Nerz wil lဣead Germany in the road race in the UCI road world championships in Florence.🥀 John Degenkolb is the team's “joker” if the road race comes down to a sprint finish.

Nerz is riding for BMC this year after two years at Liquigas-Cannondale. He finishe♍d 14th overall at tꦐhe Vuelta a Espana.

The decision wasn't easy, admitted Udo Sprenger, vice-president of the German federation. “In the end we decided for a mixture of Classics and stage race riders.” Nerz will be team captain, supported by Classics specialists Fabian Wegmann, Paul Martens and Simon Geschke. “In addition we are 🌟sending his teammate Marcus Burghardt, who has already ridden a number of good World championships.”

In case the race comes ends with a sprint, Germany will have 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:John Degenkolb, “as a joker, so to say a mountain sprinter,&rdqu꧑o; Sprenger said. He finished fourth in last year's World's road 💛race.

With Martin as defending champio꧒n, Germany have the right to send three riders to the time trial. The other two places will be taken by Patrick Gretsch and 2008 world tim💜e time trial champion Bert Grabsch.