World Championships Nicole Freedman, wearing her National Road Race Championship jersey, just prior to the start of the Elkhorn Circuit Race at the 2000 Women's Challenge.
National champions have an automatic invite to the World Championships.
The World's course sounds like it's a lot tougher than that. Probably longer hills, but I really know nothing about the World's course. I didn't realize that I had an automatic spot on the World's team until a week or so ago. I called Henny Top just before the Philadelphia World Cup, and that's when I found out. First, at the Olympics.