UCI Road World Championships

CCC riders to receive at least 50 percent of pay, venue for world championships to be confirmed by the end of May

Dutch rivals on season-opener Strade Bianche, the importance of a first-ever Paris-Roubaix, and the difficulties of a Giro-worlds clash.

New Basque project and Quintana's Arkea team are overlooked for Vuelta while officials look for world's Plan-B.

Valverde biding his time ahead of stacked season to include Tour, worlds, monuments and Vuelta.

The Giro d'Italia moves to October and overlaps with the cobbled classics and the first week of the 18-stage Vuelta a España. The UCI Women's WorldTour calendar sees the addition of ladies Paris-Roubaix.

Officials will make a decision by late June, and insist it's now or never to host them in the Swiss Alps.

The UCI has set Tuesday, May 5, for the publication of a new WorldTour calendar.

With no other races on the 2020 UCI women's schedule yet, Annemiek van Vleuten is preparing for her worlds defense in September.

40-year-old Spanish cycling star Alejandro Valverde is planning on racing the Tour, world championships, and Vuelta in re-shaped season.

Ten questions with the junior road world champion Megan Jastrab as she makes the most of life on a quiet Olympic Training Center campus.

The Outer Line argues that the UCI's proposed 2020 calendar is simply too risky to be realistic.

The new 2020 pro cycling calendar is still dependent on a reduction of the COVID-19 virus around the world.

The UCI plan sticks with traditional Sunday to Sunday dates, despite coronavirus calendar crunch.

Miller had been working with TrainingPeaks for the past two years. Prior to this engagement, he had been part of USA Cycling for 17 years.

Phinney's talents on the bike were matched by his ability to express himself off it. We trace the key threads that ran through his career, as he told them to us.

Annemiek van Vleuten says Chloé Dygert is now the favorite to win the Olympics in the individual time trial.

In this Q&A, Megan Jastrab explains the racing tactics that helped her win the junior world title in Yorkshire.

On this week's episode of The VeloNews Podcast we speak with Megan Jastrab, who recently won the junior women's road race world title in Yorkshire. Jastrab now has her sights set on the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo

Cycling's new world champions will race in the rainbow bands before the season closes, but women's winner has delayed her return

In the wake of Mads Pedersen’s surprise victory in the men’s world road championships last Sunday, we look at five other unexpected winners of the rainbow jersey and trace where their careers went after their triumphs.

American cycling hit a high point during the UCI world road championships in Yorkshire, winning seven medals, three of them gold. The race produced dramatic wins by Chloé Dygert in the women's elite time trial, and by Quinn Simmons and Megan Jastrab in the junior road races. Longtime race photographer Casey B. Gibson was there to document the action, and to snap photos of Team USA behind the scenes, as the riders, directors, and coaches prepared for the races.

A detailed examination of Quinn Simmons's power files from his world championship victory in Yorkshire, with additional information about Simmons's training and workouts in the lead-up to worlds.

After starting the season overtrained, fatigue and a lack of opportunity to rest led to a string of lackluster performances from the Italian.

Ex-pro Wiggins says the Dane's rainbow jersey is the most unexpected in decades as Pedersen plans to debut stripes

Young stars are opting to bypass the Under-23 ranks entirely, making it more challenging to assess the strength of those riders who race in the category.

Italy missed a chance to win its first rainbow jersey in more than a decade when Trentin's legs failed him in the final sprint

Yorkshire delivered on its promise of a demanding race, but Sunday's test pushed the world's best to their collective limit.

23-year-old beat Matteo Trentin and Stefan Küng to the line after a day of near-constant rain, becoming the first Danish male world champion in the process.

Heavy rain and deep puddles force organizers into a last-minute route change in men's elite road race.

Van Vleuten led home a Dutch one-two with van der Breggen in second and Australian Spratt taking third. U.S. rider Dygert Owen's attacking ride left her unrewarded in fourth place.

The UCI released clarification, and a video clip, to justify its disqualification of Nils Eekhoff in the Under-23 men's road race.

Budget cuts led USA Cycling to reorganize its junior development program, and it's paying off handsomely this week in Yorkshire

Under-23 Dutch rider Nils Eekhoff protested his disqualification in a post on social media.

Italian Samuele Battistella declared the winner of the U23 world championship road race after initial winner Dutchman Nils Eekhoff disqualified.

Reigning champ Valverde promises to go down swinging, but this worlds likely marks end of glorious era that dates back to 1999

Pro cycling's generational shift will be on display during Sunday's elite men's road race, as new stars look to win

Californian takes home rainbow jersey in junior women's road race, besting Julie de Wilde of Belgium and Lieke Nooijen of The Netherlands in late race sprint

Amid the chaotic dynamics of the junior bunch, Team USA executed its plan perfectly. Their success underscores the value of the U.S. development program, and hints at future greatness in the spring classics.

Durango, Colorado rider takes 56-second solo victory over Italian Alessio Martinelli, with fellow American Magnus Sheffield snagging bronze in Yorkshire

For years, America has sent its best young cyclists to Europe to develop in the breakneck Belgian youth leagues. Shifting dynamics in the U.S. youth system could change this pathway.

Belgian wunderkind Remco Evenepoel and Italian Filippo Ganna round out podium in England.

Having rarely competed in international road events, Chloé Dygert Owen finally confirmed her spot as one of pro road racing's strongest athletes.

Last year, the young Belgian swept the Worlds junior time trial and road race titles before making the rare leap straight to the professional WorldTour

Other top challengers include Primoz Roglic, Remco Evenepoel, and world hour record holder Victor Campenaerts

Dutchman Enzo Leijnse finished second, while German Marco Brenner was third, and American Quinn Simmons slotted fourth

Dutchwoman van Anrooij and Britain’s Backstedt round out podium on day 2 of road world’s in Yorkshire, England

Former Tour de France champion switches focus to the road race, where he lines up in Great Britain's six-man team.

Some are giving the UCI's novel mixed relay race the benefit of a doubt, but Belgian manager Patrick Lefevere isn't one of them

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Europe fell in love with Beth Heiden after she won the road world championship race in 1980.

The Dutch national team is holding a spot for Mathieu van der Poel, and the coach says the 2019 Yorkshire course is ideally suited for the multi-discipline star.

Scotland will host the first unified cycling world championships, which the UCI will run every four years on a cycle one year ahead of the Summer Olympics.

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It was well on into his career—a full nine years after he burst on the scene with a victory at the Tour de l’Avenir, and eight years after he took his one and only Tour de France—that Felice Gimondi won the 1973 world road race championship in Barcelona.

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Host city Wollongong will end the run of five consecutive European events

Woods could smell victory with 200 meters remaining of the world champs, but cramps caused the Canadian to "pedal squares" into third place.

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Between illness and personal tragedy, Michael Woods could have written off 2018. Instead, he climbed to success at the Vuelta and worlds.

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We were treated to two very different (and exciting) races at world championships in Innsbruck. We unpack the tactics and dynamics behind these races.

Despite bringing a strong cast of climbers to Innsbruck world championships, the Colombians cannot crack the top-10 on a mountainous course.

Although she's suited for sprint finishes, Coryn Rivera attacks early at worlds in an effort to set up Team USA's climbers.

The three-time former world champion admits the rainbow jersey was weighing on him and that the Innsbruck course had too much climbing.

We hear from Coryn Rivera on how the action played out at Innsbruck worlds and discuss why cycling fans are leery of Alejandro Valverde.

An inside look at Team USA's week in Austria racing UCI World Road Championships, through the lens of Casey B. Gibson.

The world's best cyclists chase rainbow jerseys in the mountains around Innsbruck, Austria in the 2018 edition of UCI World Championships.

The Italians managed a fifth-place finish in the men's elite road race with Gianni Moscon, but they're hopeful for the future.

The Spaniard won his first world championship over the weekend, and he's already talking about competing at the 2020 Olympics.

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Syrian refugee Ahmad Badreddin Wais races the elite men's world time trial championships; says his country needs peace.

After years of coming close, Alejandro Valverde finally wins a rainbow jersey. His checkered past makes it a complicated race for cycling fans.

Canadian Michael Woods endured a challenging year personally, but on the bike he shined and rode onto the worlds podium.

Romain Bardet finished second in the road race, marking France's first worlds podium finish since 2005.

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Words and images by James Startt