Luxembourg has finalized its selection for the world championships and chosen Bob Jungels as its sole representative in both the road race and the time trial. There was no room for Andy Schleck who wn't get the chance to show his climbing talents on the hilly course in Florence.

On the back of a lacklustre season where Andy Schleck has failed to produce any kind of results and Frank Schleck has been sidelined by suspension, Luxembourg has only been awarded one spot for the world championships road race. The national federation has finalized its selection, choosing young talent Bob Jungels as their sole representative in both the time trial and road race.

Jungels has had an outstanding debut season as a professional, winning the GP Nobili Rubinetterie from a long-distance breakaway and triumphing in the very hard final stage of his home tour in which he finished 5th on GC. He went on to win both his national road race and time trial championships before performing well in the recent Eneco Tour.

While the selection for the time trial is no surprise - Jungels has rarely finished outside the top 10 in his preferred discipline - the decision to give him the only spot for the road race is more controversial. As a consequence, the country's star rider Andy Schleck won't get his chance to show his talents on the hilly course in Florence.

Schleck has had a terrible season but showed signs of life in the Tour de Suisse and Tour de France and recently put on an aggressive showing in the USA Pro Challenge. The 2010 Tour de France winner will now have to put together an alternative racing schedule as he gradually prepares for his 2014 season.

That has only been made even more difficult by the decision of his Radioshack team to only race WorldTour races for the remainder of the season, leaving just the Canadian WorldTour races, Il Lombardia and the Tour of Beijing as possible end-of-season races for Schleck.