After the UCI recently introduced the rule where riders on pro teams under the age of 23 are now legible for the U23 Road Worlds, Australia’s selectors have hinted that they would like Caleb Ewan to try and go one better than his silver medal from 2014.

"We'd leave that to Caleb to decide," Ewan’s Orica-GreenEDGE team manager Shayne Bannan told Cyclingnews. "Would he be allowed to wear that jersey? If he wanted to do it there's no way we'd oppose to this fantastic possibility for him to be the [U23] world champion. But the world championship is flat this year. For him it's a really good opportunity to have exposure in his first professional world championship. If it was for myself I'd rather get the experience and the exposure in the Elite rather than in the under 23."

Elite selector Bradley McGee says that right now, it looks like Ewan will be leading the professional team in the Worlds, so he is keen to jeep his leader in the elite race.

"If I'm wearing my Australian Elite national coach hat, I'd like to explore all potential possibilities to running Caleb with me in the elite," acknowledged sports director Bradley McGee. "But at the same time we're going to have that conversation with Kevin Tabotta and James Victor with regards to the under-23 goals but definitely my thoughts would be going towards the pro race with Caleb.”