The UCI Road World Championships opened on Saturday with the road races for junior men and women, with a pair of solo winners – France's Julie Bego and Denmark's Albert Philipsen – taking the first rainbow jerseys on the road in Glasgow.
With the two races being for riders aged under 18, the shorter distances meant that they wouldn't tackle the 120km stretch from Edinburgh to the Glasgow circuit. However, there were plenty of indicators of how the elite men's race might play out.
