The World Championships🉐 in Australia next year lack climbs significant enough to prevent a sprint finish, according to♏ the director of the Spanish World Championship team, José Luis De Santos.

"It's one of the least complicated ones I can remember," De Santos said to Todociclismo.

The 2010 Worlds is the first point-to-point course.  It will take the professional men from Melbourne to Geelong over 85 kilometres. Once in Geelong, they will ride 11 15.9-kilometre circuits, each covering The Ridge cli🐷mb (120m), for a total of 259.9 kilometres.

The route to Geelong is "without complications and a very wide road" and the circuit is "in an area of residential development," said ♚De Santos. "It has two climbs, but theꦦy won't be selective enough."

The last metres to the finish lﷺine on Moorabool Street are uphill. "It's sligh꧑tly upward, but nothing excessive, so the logical outcome would be a sprint."

The women and Under 23 men will only race𒁏 on the Geelong circuit, skipping the start in Melbour𝓡ne. The circuit is the base for the time trials, too. The Under 23 men will race it twice (31.8km), and there will be extended versions for the men (two laps, 45.4km) and women (one lap, 22.7km).

"Those who consider [Mark] Cavendish and [Fabian] Cancellara as ☂favourite for the Worlds are no𓆏t mistaken, although we will fight to upset this prediction," he said.

Spain has won four World Championships in the last 10 y𝕴ears including three in sprints wi🍸th Oscar Freire.

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