Alejandro Valverde finally wins the rainbow jersey

I'm more appalled that Valverde's gloves don't match the rest of his kit!

Also liked that Pinarello sorted out Moscon with a blue "squadra azzura" bike.  Shame he's an arsehole really.

I think it all a bit obvious to simply put his results down to doping. He outraced the others yesterday, as he was third best on the final climb, but managed to grit his teeth and then front it out to the finish.

It was a classy ride by an experienced rider. The others made mistakes... Bardet should have been on Valverde's wheel for the sprint, if he was content to leave it to a sprint, and Dumoulin should have just gone all in at a km to go and seen what happened.. worst case it would have been the same result. 

Personally, I'd have liked anyone else of the leading for to have won over Valverde, but I don't begrudge him. He is still here because the UCI allow him to be, so if my beef is with anyone, it is with them.

It was a brutal race... watching so many top contenders get spat out of the back was very unusual. I think team GB did themselves proud, Stannard and Connor Swift were top notch, Pete Kennaugh was the surprise of the day, really great to see his attacks so near to the end..shame about the Yates brothers, but a great show by all.

I think it would have been far nicer to have seen Romain Bardet, Michael Woods or Tommy Dumonlin win the rainbow jersey.. Valverde was the strongest rider on the ady no doubt and there was no hiding on that course, it was a brutal race and massive gratz to anyone who was in the top ten or indeed the finishers.. but Valverde to me represents a hangover from a different era, I hope one day we'll see some of the truth from operation puerto make it to daylight instead of being tied up in legal knots... let us not forget that it's a Spanish court which has tied up the case and has stopped the release of the owners of the blood bags in this case. I doubt Valverde winning the World Champs this year will help convince any Spanish court to release them.I mean, who'd want to sully the name of their own countries cycling superhero? (Apart from the Brits obvs).

whats the likelyhood of valverde carrying on much longer. A postive? is that now he has nothing left to achieve he might chose to retire and help draw a close to that era.

On sheer determination alone it should have been Dumoulin's, I do wonder if he'd have managed to get past the group as he caught them if he'd have been able to hold them off.

Not a particularly satisfying winner in Valverde, but he never gives up, very impressive at his age.

How of your day is spent thinking about Froome?

I presume Froome would be riding for team brexit of course, and not Kenya

A sad day for cycling.  The struggle to have our sport recognised as cerdible has just been set back 10 years.

I’ve got the same empty feeling that I had in 2012 when Alexander Vinokourov won the Olympic road race. 

After a long hard season too ! Maybe Froome and Thomas had longer, and harder seasons, which is why they couldn't manage the worlds !

Personally I’m delighted - he’s one of the most exciting and versatile riders around.

Bardet or Dumoulin would also have been worthy winners. 

Congratulation, I guess, to Valv, Piti. He's a lying, cheating scumbag, but also one helluva rider, even if you assume half his early-career wins were doped.

Not a great showing from Team HSBC (co-sponsored by Great Britain) overall, but at least Pete Kennaugh gave it a good try.

Tom Dumoulin must've ridden about 50 meters further that the rest on that final climb, the way he was zig-zagging. I really hope he gets a grand tour win next year because he never seems to give up.