Rohan Dennis has revealed he didn’t initially plan to ride the Worlds time trial in Qatar, but after a mechanical derailed his chances of an Olympic medal in the discipline, he has changed his mind.

“I initially said ‘look I don’t want to go’, it was going to be in mid-October which is two weeks later than normal and I started in January going full gas,” Dennis said this week in an interview with the Adelaide Advertiser. “And it was probably going to be windy and the worst-case scenario was that I’d get blown off my bike.”

Dennis said that everything changed when his handlebars snapped in Rio and he dropped from second to fifth in the TT.

“But when the bar broke and I lost that silver medal — Fabian Cancellara was out of reach at that stage — I thought ‘well I want to get something out of this season, I don’t want it to end with it being on a bad note’. That’s when I went to Tour of Britain and Eneco Tour and wanted to go out really well. Now it’s time trial at worlds and a world title is a world title isn’t it.”