I think attending road world’s and the relationships he may have been able to foster there would be significantly more valuable than a BWR result. Only a very small part of the cycling community would have even heard of BWR, let alone known it was on this weekend.
There’s a funny mix of condescension in these threads. Keegan had a fine result really it doesn’t speak negatively of his abilities, and shows he isn’t ready to compete on the levels of the best one day racers in the world. Both of these things were pretty well expected.
I’d have love to have seen / assume he could have taken the place of Scott McGill in the break.
Also, Keegan did 300W NP for 260km. That’s kind of wild, and shows how tough this race was. A lot of these road races, the back fillers are able to have very low average powers (relative their high speeds etc)