When the 2025 UCI Road World Championships arrived in Kigali, Rwanda, it was clear that we were about to witness something special. It was the first time the Worlds had ever landed in Africa, and the build-up was full of big promises. In the end,…
The 2025 UCI Road Race World Championships, which ended Sunday with the Elite Men’s race, were remarkable not only because they were the first to be held on the African continent – though that was surely special.
Sport is really a simple affair. The team with the better players wins most of the time, and the strongest athlete usually wins the individual competitions. So it wasn’t really a surprise that Tadej Pogačar won Sunday’s Elite Men’s World Championship Road Race by a…
The final climb of the time trials in the UCI World Championships in Kigali didn’t cause any significant mechanical issues on its long stretch of bone-rattling cobblestones, as I had feared, but the Côte de Kimihurura (1.3 km @ 6.3%), did prove decisive in many…
