Matthews: These World Championships are a lottery

Michael Matthews believes that luck will be the biggest factor in deciding who gets to wear the rainbow jersey at the end of Sunday's men's road race at the World Championships. Matthews, who claimed silver at last year's race in Richmond, will head up the Australian team in Doha, while up-and-coming sprinter Caleb Ewan is a secondary option.

Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.