Welcome back to Stuttgart - it is now time for the road races to begin and we start with the under 23's.
The youngsters have twelve of these 18km hilly circuits to complete, the three hills per circuit should accumulate to quite a tough contest.
The Dutch and Germans seem to have the strongest squads spear-headed by Kelderman and Vogt respectively. Both ride for Team Puma-SAP, a team who have really invested heavily into young riders this season. They are rivals today, meanwhile another Protour rider Skujins (Latvia) has ridden a hard season via the Vuelta and the Ardennes to get here he is tipped as the class of the 2013 crop.
As expected a small breakaway is allowed to get clear in the early going.
Yates (Great Britain), Fominykk (Kazachstan), Hayakawa (Japan), Othman (Malaysia), Ablenado (Spain) and Cattaneo (Italy) make up the break.
Yates, Fominykk, Hayakawa and Othman have all been riding for Continental teams this season some of them have been part of loan deals. Ablenado and Cattaneo are young climbers from Spain and Italy, the latter looks a really good prospect though usually prefers the longer mountain type stuff than the hilly course we have today.
The six man breaks lead grows to nearly eight minutes before some teams start to work, it is the powerful Dutch team working together with the French team.
France have gone unmentioned in the main, though with the likes of Demare,Koretzky and Barguil in the team they certainly have strength in depth if lacking a true leader.
Latvia have a couple of riders helping out as do Luxembourg, though their domestiques are helping rather fleetingly.
This course is pretty much up and down most of the way, tricky roads as in the second half tired riders begin to make mistakes on the descents. Most notably Simon Yates crashes from the break.
However the break allow Yates to get back on and they work together well to maintain a decent three and a half minute lead as we tick off another lap now just three laps and around 50km to go.
The Dutch/ French alliance though are unpanicked and even a short shower does not upset their rhythm as they wipe off a minute from the breaks lead over the next circuit.
A big cheer along the side of the roads as now some of the German riders push forward to the front as the UnFrankish sounding Vasyliv leads the peloton. The Germans have kept their energies for this finale and are now pushing things on!
The breaks lead is falling down rapidly as with 30km to go their lead is down to under 90 seconds thanks to the German push. However the Dutch juggernaut is wresting control once more with Kelderman having all five teammates up front controlling the pack.
The break however will lead us through into the final circuit with Hayakawa pushing things on.
Things are kicking off in the pack now too as Chinese rider Skikai (Mixed) attacks with Morton (Australia) following.
The Germans shut this down quickly, however no sooner has this been shut then we get another attack, this time by Kinoshita. Cue many sniggering amongst childish Anglophile commentators.
All laughing aside the Japanese rider is a decent hills rider and he prises open a 20 second gap and start to close on the break which is still impressively ahead.
Is this a chink in the German/Dutch strongman teams? Some riders decide to try and scramble across to the Japanese rider.
Mat Senan (Malaysia), Lutsenko (Kazachstan) and Dombrowski (USA) decide they are not going to die wondering as they attack.
But no dice at the moment as the Dutch pull it all together (including the break) with 14km to go.
Kinoshita isn't done yet though, as this writer finds it hard to not use the stereotypical Kamikaze to describe his next downhill attack to the last big climb in the race.
Once again the elastic hasn't really snapped as Holland and Germany keep the attacking Japanese rider in range. Kreder is the Dutch powerhouse with Meyer and Dieteren for the Germans.
Halfway up the last climb South African Meintjes (Mixed) forces his way through to the front and stretches the pace even higher. This sets the perfect platfrom for an attack over the top.
Here we go - it is race favourite Skujins, the Latvian has been comfortably monitoring things from about 20th place in these last two laps. Now when things are at there most stretched he makes his move.
He reels in Kinoshita quickly.
He rockets past the fading Japanese with a Dutch and German rider in pursuit.
Kelderman and Arndt are the riders in question, Kelderman has most definately been playing the role of leader for the Dutch and now it becomes clear that Arndt not Vogt seems to be leading the Germans.
The three have broken 30 seconds clear of the bunch who are looking at each other. Sure enough several riders realise they now have to attack there is no-one wanting to pace.
Chinese Shikai has his second wind with Morton (Australia) also following. This duo quickly bridge to the lead trio - what an earth are those three up too.
Kelderman and Arndt seemingly could not come to an accord with Skujins and now the medal race is wide open as the pack are streaming across to the leaders.
All the hilly guys are here in what is massing up to be a group of around 50 riders. Kreder goes to the head of affairs as the Dutch team look to take command of this uphill finish.
But no with 2 klicks left cheered on by their home crowd Germany take control through Zabel and Meyer.
Behind these two we have Dutch duo Schoobroot, Van der Lijke with Skikai and Dombroski attacking at the sides. Arndt and Kelderman however are right in the mix following their teammates nicely. Skujins is nowhere.
Shikai hits out with 1400m to go, with Lutsenko trying to follow on that side. Dombrowski doesn't have the same punch as Skikai and now Kelderman is storming past hoping to catch Arndt out.
700m to go and we are in the steepest part of this final climb as Skikai grits his teeth on what would be a sensational win for the Chinese. Kelderman though has other ideas as Arndt looks to stick on the Dutch wonderkids wheel.
They approach the final right hander with Kelderman almost on Shikai's level. Lutsenko is not able to move forwards any more with Meintjes and Van der Lijke with possible clear road to outside medal hopes behind Shikai, Kelderman and Arndt.
Chinese hopes collapse though round the final bend that clearly favours those on Keldermans side of the road. It is free road for Kelderman here.
Still 200m to go though and Arndt can see a chance for a home win.
Kelderman is struggling slightly but there is the line not much further.
He gives it one final spurt and yes a win for the Dutch, a second gold of the worlds.
Arndt takes the Silver, with Van Der Lijke taking bronze.
A storming controlling performance from the Dutch today, both they and the Germans were seemingly happy for things to go to a group sprint and so it proved the right strategy.
Behind the leaders we get 4th and 5th for France, who never really took a chance and then a blanket finish behind them.
