2008 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race
The Men's Individual Road Race of the 2008 UCI Road World Championships cycling event took place on September 28 in Varese, Italy. The course comprised 15 laps around 17.35-kilometre route, making a total distance of 260.25 km. Each lap featured two ascents: the first at Via Montello ; and the second at Ronchi. The highest elevation measured 480 metres (1,570 ft) at Via Montello.
The peloton during the race
Óscar Freire Gómez is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the top sprinters in road bicycle racing, having won the world championship three times, equalling Alfredo Binda, Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx and Peter Sagan. In the later years of his career, he became more of a classics rider. He won the cycling monument Milan–San Remo three times, the green jersey and four stages in the Tour de France and seven stages of the Vuelta a España, throughout a successful career.
Freire at the 2012 Tour Down Under
Friere with Rabobank in 2004
Freire at the 2008 Tour de France, wearing the Points classification in the Tour de France
Freire at the 2011 Danmark Rundt