Sir Dave Brailsford will take charge of the Great Britain team at the Road World Championships this month, despite quitting his role as performance director in April.
The 50-year-old, who left to commit full-time to the role of Team Sky Principal with the road team, will deputise for Shane Sutton, who will be concentrating on track racing at the British Championships in Manchester, which start on September 24.
Sutton, the British Cycling technical director, will remain in the UK while Brailsford travels to Ponferrada in Spain for the week-long event that begins on September 21.
“It made sense for me to ask Sir Dave to attend the Road World Championships as obviously the road is his focus and full-time role,” said Sutton.
“The decision allows me to stay in Manchester with the track riders for the Nationals and to focus on the performances there which are increasingly important at this stage of the Olympic cycle.”
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Mark Cavendish, the 2011 world champion, will not compete at the Road World Championships.
Cavendish was forced to have shoulder surgery after crashing out of the opening stage of the Tour de France in Harrogate.
He will compete in the Tour of Britain, which begins on Sunday although doubts still persist over his fitness after the accident.
Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins, Tour de France champions under Brailsford at Team Sky in 2013 and 2012 respectively, have been named and could feature in the same team for the first time since last year’s World Championships in Florence.
The British women’s team will be led by Lizzie Armistead, the Olympic silver medal-winner and Commonwealth Games champion.
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Alice and Hannah Barnes, the sisters, have been named on the list, but Emma Pooley is absent having retired after her silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.