Pinot joins Bardet and Alaphilippe in French Worlds team

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Thibaut Pinot (Team Groupama FDJ)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/Getty Images Sport)

Cyrille Guimard has now named seven of the eight riders who will represent France in the elite men’s road race at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:World Championships, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Thibaut Pinot, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rudy Molard (Groupama-FDJ) and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pierre Rolland (EF Education First-Drap🔥ac) added to the list of pre-ꦇselected riders on Friday.

, Guimard explained that four riders remain in contention for the final slot on the French team, with a decision to be taken after the Italian semi-classics in the coming week.

"I still have to select the eighth rider," Guimard said. "As of now, the contenders for this final place on the French team for the Worlds in Austria are, with no order of preference: Warren Barguil (Fortuneo-Samsic), Guillaume Martin (Wanty Groupe Gobert), and Alexis Vuillermoz (AG2R-La Mondiale) who was the victim of a crash at the Tour de France but who rode well in the WorldTour races in Canada, as well as his teammꩵate Alexandre Géniez, winner of a stage on the Vuelta a España."

Alaphilippe is likely to lead the squad, and he has been the strongest performer in French national colours in recent years, placing 4th at the Rio 2016 Olympics and second in that year’s European Championships. The Quick-Step rider dr🔯opped everyone on the final ascent of Salmon Hill at last year’s Worlds in Bergen but was caught in the closing kilometres and placed 10th behind Peter Sagan.