Hmmmm, remarkable, I guess Angus Friend was not motivated or so, the 3 EP start as teamcaptain was not good enough,
and despite his high GV and high flat, he was in s2 already in the 4th group (nrs64 to 99) on 0:44"
To make it even worse, very unexpected he was isolated in s3 and s4.
It was a very surprising bad race of Angus Friend compared to the other Australians.
To me it makes no sense, and I cheked the tactics a few times before the race, no mistakes there, and he was the teamcaptain.
Despite the bad race of the team captain, Australia scored many points ( 280 ) with 3 cyclists in the top20.
9º Battle ( surprising, successful free role tactic )
11º Friend 
17º Kelly ( Friend should have been in the wheel of best helper Kelly in s4, but Friend was far behind in s4 )
A 9º place is the worst result ever of Australia in a cobble flat race,
but the total amount of
280 points is good, it is even an Australian record in a cobble flat race with 1 flat section.
Unfortunately Belgium did much better in this NT race 7 with 4 cyclists in the top20, and scored
440 points.
So again Belgium is world champion, just like in previous season. And it seems to me it is a well deserved world championship.
Final season 10 ranking / podium ;
1.
2.155
2.
1.835
3.
1.370
Australia scored even 55 more points than what I predicted in my season 10 preview*.
And Australia scored more points this season 10 than the world champion of previous season 9 ( also Belgium with 1.620 points ).
* preview =
https://cyclingforfun.org/smf/index.php?topic=632.msg21374#msg21374And maybe Australia wins the
individual world championship ?
Because the 7 NT race winners are on a split number 1 with 300 points, and CFF gives Richard Levin the nr1 position.
But I clicked all 7 cyclists, and nobody has the individual NT championship jersey yet of season 10. Maybe it will show after the update.
