DIRECT. Cycling: Van Aert huge favorite, Alaphilippe and the Blues as outsiders ... follow the online race of the Worlds

The essential

• Sacred in Imola (Italy) in 2020, Julian Alaphilippe will try to keep his title of world champion.

• At home, the Belgian team, in particular made up of Wout van Aert and Remco Evenepoel, seems formidable.

• The Blues dynamited the start of the race, with attacks from Benoit Cosnefroy and Valentin Madouas in particular.

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2:35 p.m.

Several notable retirements while there is 95 km of race remaining: Davide Ballerini and Matteo Trentin (Italy), Maximilian Schachmann (Germany), Danny Van Poppel and Oscar Riesebeek (Netherlands), Marc Hirschi (Switzerland) or Mads Pedersen ( Denmark), world champion in 2019.

2:30 p.m.

Hello everyone and welcome to our site to follow the outcome of the Cycling World Championships live.

There are still around 100 km to go for the runners, grouped together in the peloton.