Lizzie Deignan has never been short of excuses for not winning in her career and this time it was everyone else being motorpaced by motor bikes,the heat,being marked,the agendas within teams...

Still, GB can claim credit that the Austrian winner, who now works in Switzerland and obtained her Masters and lived and raced in Spain got her PhD at Cambridge.

I wonder how the newspapers in those countries will claim a piece of the glory?