World Championships

New Irish champ set to miss cycling’s biggest event on this occasion and target the rainbow jersey instead.

20-year-old Beth Heiden punches the air as she crosses the line to win the 1980 Road World Championships in Sallanches, France.

The veteran Belgian opens up on the new discipline on the block.

What does Peter Sagan make of the first Gravel Worlds? All that and more in a chat with Shoddy Dave.

Remco won in Remco fashion, but how was he allowed to slip away to the World title?

The US cross country champion and one of the world's best gravel racers got a late call-up to elite road worlds.

The top contenders desire a mano a mano contest for the rainbow jersey.

Can a big team control the race on Saturday or will an opportunistic rider take the jersey?

The worlds course would suit Pedersen, but he's opted to head home after the Vuelta.

For the first time in history, men and women will race the same length time trial at the World Championships

The UCI will award 190 rainbow jerseys over a 11-day period.

We got a close-up look at what a world champion rides when taking on the cobbles of Roubaix.

What's it like in the convoy at the World Championships? Well, we found out with the help of Team Ireland.

Fresh from the finish line, the bike has tubes in its tyres, is caked in Flemish dirt, and is covered in sweat and tears.

Nineteen years after Mario Cipollini was crowned world champion in Zolder, Belgium, we managed to get hold of not just his custom-painted world champion's bike but also the bike that took him to victory.

The UCI has confirmed that Kigali will host the 2025 Road World Championships, marking the first time Road Worlds will be held in Africa.

This year's WorldTour season was like no other, with overlapping grand tours, a midsummer Strade Bianche and so much more. Could any of those changes be made permanent?

Houle feels that national body is failing to support road cycling as budget squeeze leads to focus elsewhere.

From Mads Pedersen's winning-streak after returning to his Trek-Segafredo jersey to Julian Alaphilippe's showboating sprint dramas, maybe 'the rainbow curse' is more than a myth.

French star plans to start season slightly off the boil to allow form to last a busy schedule set to run through the fall.

Promising Dane not bitter despite missing chance at wearing world champion's jersey in northern classics.

EF Pro Cycling's rising Colombian star feels his countrymen will be at advantage on return to racing, sees world championship opportunity for his nation.

EF Pro Cycling rider keeping options open for later in calendar, with Vuelta and classics both options.

A shift in world championships venue to Qatar may force Evenepoel to focus on the time trial rather than road race.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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SLIDESHOW: American Aaron Gwin barely missed a spot on the elite men's downhill podium when he clocked the fourth fastest time on Sunday. Neko Mulally misses junior gold by fractions of a second.

SLIDESHOW: For mountain biking — or world championship mountain biking to be exact — 20 years is just old enough to afford a nostalgic look back and see what a long ride it's been. Legendary mountain biking photog Tom Moran gets the goods at Mont Saint Anne.

SLIDESHOW: Spain's Jose Antonio Hermida — who crashed at least once, with pre-race favorite Julien Absalon on lap 1, and was as far back as 10th at one point — powered to an impressive win, handily holding off a late challenge from the Czech Republic's Jaroslav Kulhavy and South Africa's Burry Stander.

SLIDESHOW: Poland's Maja Wloszczowska won the women's world cross-country championships Saturday, riding away from Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel and Irena Kalentieva on a foggy, cool morning at Mount St. Anne, Quebec.