Some of the best riders in the world will compete in categories including track, road, and BMX as well as para-cycling, which is fully integrated for the first time.
It was held on an epic 15.99 mile road course in and around Pescara, which is a seaside town halfway down Italy's Adriatic coast, in other words, the right-hand side.
Now, on road races, flat stuff, like the track stuff, the roads, I guess a runnable trail, where it's just basically crushed limestone, more or less, you definitely get an advantage from it.
So I got my first pair of bespoke handlebars in the run up to Beijing for the track and then we did another set that was going to work out on the road as well.