Hours before the better-known competitors took to the course for the Team Time Trial Mixed Relay at the UCI Road World Championships, a group of riders from Afghanistan were the first down the starting ramp and, not much later, the UCI World Cycling Centre team with two refugee riders.
The fact that one of the Afghan riders fell on the start ramp, that the team struggled to stay together on the hilly, technical course in Glasgow, and that they finished dead last isn't the point.
