Rainbow diaries: The last race in the rainbow jersey
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UCI Road World Championships
The UCI Road World Championships heads to Zurich, Switzerland for 2024. The racing takes place September 21-29, 2024 with the biggest names in the sport set to compete for a number of gold medals and rainbow jerseys. This is the first ever time the road and para-cycling world championships have been combined into a single event.
Road race schedule
- Saturday, September 21: Para-Cycling: Mixed Handbike Team Relay
- Sunday, September 22: Women Elite ITT, Men Elite ITT,Para-Cycling: Women B & C4-5 ITT
- Monday, September 23: Men Junior ITT, Men Under 23 ITT, Para-Cycling: Men B & C4-5 ITT
- Tuesday, September 24: Women Junior ITT, Para-Cycling: Women C1-3 & H3-5, Men C1-3 & H1-5 ITT, Women H1-2 & T1-2, Men T1-2 ITT
- Wednesday, September 25: Mixed Relay Team Time Trial, Para-Cycling: Men B, Women B RR
- Thursday, September 26: Women Junior RR, Men Junior RR, Para-Cycling: Men H1-2, Women H1-5 RR, Men C4-5 & C3 RR
- Friday, September 27: Men Under 23 RR, Para-Cycling: Men C1 & C2 RR, Men T1-2, Women T1-2 RR
- Saturday, September 28: Women Elite RR, Para-Cycling: Men H3 RR, Women C1-3 & C4-5 RR
- Sunday, September 29: Men Elite RR, Para-Cycling: Men H4 & H5 RR
Then there were seven: Australia adds Hosking and Neylan to Road Worlds team
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Cycling Australia selectors told to reconsider women’s Road Worlds team
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Froome aims for unique triple after Tour, Vuelta wins
Chris Froome will attempt to win the time trial at the upcoming UCI Road World Championships in Bergen, Norway.
Froome to ride at upcoming road worlds in Norway
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The SHEcret Pro: Worlds, Aussie selection drama, transfer travails
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Chloe Hosking to appeal Road Worlds non-selection: “This is bigger than my personal ego”
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Worlds and the UCIWWT final: the season comes to a close in September
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Far from done: Ellen van Dijk eyes world title, Olympic gold, hour record
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Rainbow diaries: Champagne showers and the beginning of a new era
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Cavendish: My career is over if I don’t let this fracture heal properly
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Vuelta unlikely for Sagan, all eyes on worlds three-peat
Bora-Hansgrohe confirms that Peter Sagan is solely focused on an unprecedented third consecutive world championship title.
Seven months after Doha world championships, 130 staff said to be awaiting payment
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Rainbow diaries: Dideriksen on major milestones made sweeter by rainbows
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The Secret Pro: Motors, discs, jiffy bags, and more
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‘Remember to enjoy it, Amalie’: Dideriksen, on kicking off new season in rainbow stripes
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Rivals take note: After breakout year, Lepistö enters Spring Classics with confidence
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Not above bottle duty: Amalie Dideriksen’s year ahead in the rainbow stripes
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“I can’t get my head around it:” Cavendish says worlds result still hard to understand
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Faces of the Future: Skylar Schneider, the younger half of the crit-crushing “Schneider Sisters”
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Faces of the Future: four things to know about junior world champ Elisa Balsamo
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Meet Amalie Dideriksen: Your new world champion
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Photo gallery: the women’s world championship events in Doha
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Sun, sand and sweat: Photo highlights from the Doha Road World Championships
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Why didn’t he follow Sagan? Cavendish explains worlds sprint
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Who were the fans that made the trek to Qatar for worlds?
Precious few spectators turned out for Doha worlds, but there were a few intrepid cycling fans who made the trek to Qatar.
Inside the World Championship Road Race
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Gallery: Sagan secures another year in the rainbow jersey
Sagan surges to another world championship win after a long day under the hot Qatari sun
Peter Sagan Wins World Championships
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Five keys to the repeat: Super Sagan does it again
Sagan follows the right moves, bides his time, and kicks to victory for a rare world championship repeat
Degenkolb blows gasket after frustrating day
John Degenkolb sprays his water bottle at Belgium's Jens Debusschere on a frustrating day for the German team in Doha
Sagan outsprints Cavendish and Boonen to win 2016 world road championships
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Cavendish on worlds sprint: “I made a mistake”
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Worlds: Sagan doubles up in Doha
Peter Sagan sprints to a second world title out of a small group in Doha
Gallery: Dideriksen sprints to women’s gold
Scenes from Saturday's women's elite road race at the Doha world championships
Hoping, not expecting: Sam Bennett on a frustrating season and his Qatar worlds chances
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Without Valverde, it’s a different kind of worlds for Spain
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Images from Women’s Worlds in Doha
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#PelotonShorts: Doha’s Pearl Island
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Amalie Dideriksen Wins Women’s World Championships
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Amalie Dideriksen surprises, sprints to victory in World Championship road race
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Chasing rainbow stripes: Chloe Hosking on her chance of becoming the first Australian women’s world road race champion
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Worlds: Dideriksen claims rainbow jersey for Denmark
20-year-old Amalie Dideriksen sprints past Kirsten Wild in a photo finish to take the rainbow jersey in the women's road race in Doha, Qatar
No reduction likely for men’s road race in Doha
UCI president Brian Cookson says it's looking like there will be no need to shorten Sunday's road race due to heat
Cavendish hoping he’s back to old self after illness
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#PelotonShorts: Uncertain Winds in Doha
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Chad Haga Journal: Taking a swing at Qatar worlds
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Italians Nizzolo and Viviani hope worlds is windy and tough
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Better with age: Armstrong and Neben still dominating
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Sagan: What do I have to lose at worlds? What pressure?
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Boonen on worlds: ‘The heat will be brutal’
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Worlds: Balsamo wins women’s junior worlds, U.S. second
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Doha worlds: Denmark’s Egholm solos to men’s junior road race win
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Editors’ Picks: Who will be world champion?
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Vos chasing Longo record at Doha worlds
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Livestream: 2016 Men’s UCI World Road Championships in Doha
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Preview: What you need to know about the men’s world championship road race
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Preview: Who will be the new women’s world champion?
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#PelotonShorts: Desert Heat in Doha
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Carpenter’s worlds prep? Long, hot SoCal rides
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Worlds Gallery: Norwegians beat the heat in U23 road race
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Americans do what they can in unfavorable Qatar terrain
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U23 worlds: Norway’s Halvorsen sprints to victory
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Groundbreaking study uses worlds cyclists for heat research
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Camelbak, cooling vests and the dunny: how Katrin Garfoot beat the heat in Qatar
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Into the Men’s ITT World Championships
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Tony Martin Wins Fourth ITT World Title
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No tubulars needed — Martin wins worlds with clincher tires
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Worlds Gallery: Martin masters elite TT championships again
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Sauna sessions nearly deliver miracle medal for Mullen
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Tony Martin smashes field to land fourth world time trial championship title
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Where are the fans? TT champ frustrated by quiet Qatar
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Yorkshire chosen to host 2019 world championships
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Teams, riders get creative in desert heat at worlds
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Elite women’s TT worlds full of redemption stories
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Martin wins fourth career world TT title in Doha
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Preview: What you need to know about the men’s world championship time trial
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Doha Diaries: The Badger Remembers
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The SHEcret Pro: Doha Worlds, contract season and more
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