van persie given his marching orders in stoppage time for a late challenge. nine men feyenoord sit third, level on points with ajax and five behind leaders psv eindhoven. spain's alejandro valverde sprinted to a dramatic victory in the men's road race at the uci world championships in austria to finally claim his long awaited first title. valverde, who had previously finished on the podium a record six times without winning, edged clear of a four—way sprint to take the rainbowjersey. the bbc‘sjill douglas was watching the action with chris boardman. well, we have come to the end of a spectacular week here at the uci world championships. beautiful sunshine than men's final race, won by va lverde sunshine than men's final race, won by valverde of spain. what a cracking race. so many times he has been close and never pulled it off. it was going to be his last shot at it, almost certainly. it was the relief that he atley created the opportunity at this time and managed to get it all the way there. —— that heady. it was the last couple of kilometres, right, i have