{"id":145998,"date":"2017-01-10T15:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=145998"},"modified":"2017-01-10T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T15:23:18","slug":"2018-road-world-championships-course-leaked-looks-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/01\/10\/2018-road-world-championships-course-leaked-looks-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"The 2018 Road World Championships Course Leaked and Looks Insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>At the very moment when it was announced that Innsbruck, Austria, will be hosting the 2018 UCI Road World Championships it was crystal clear that the course will be most probably designed for climbers. You can turn virtually in every direction while being outside at this ski resort and you\u2019ll find breathtaking mountain views.<\/strong><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As the UCI president, Brian Cookson, aptly remarked even before anything was known of the course: \u201cI have no doubt that Innsbruck will provide a stunning and challenging route for riders to compete on, as well as a wonderful, unique backdrop that can only add to the spectator and viewer experience.\u201d Well, he definitely wasn\u2019t anywhere far from truth. As you can see in the leaked tweet by Italian journalists below, which is supposed to depict the last two laps of the course, there will be two killer climbs present.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145999\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/01\/C1uX1I9XcAAVh9N.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1022\" height=\"662\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the UCI haven\u2019t officially confirmed this devilish setup, the organizers seem very decided. From what we can gather so far, the first climb is a steady 5km ascent with an average gradient of 5.7 per cent to the village of Patsch to the south of the city. From there the course descends back into the city but then, although shorter, more vicious climb at the other side of the city awaits the riders. Even though it\u2019s only 2,8km long, it has an average gradient of 11.4 percent and, as if this wasn\u2019t enough, has a 17 per cent section in the middle, which belong into a Strava category titled \u201cHell\u201d. How tempting.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s race is expected to be about 269km in length and the finishing circuit will be tackled twice at the end of it. The race starting line is expected to be in the town of Kufstein, but an official announcement is yet to be made. No matter what the final decisions will be, we have a hell of a race to look forward to. We can only guess that Sagan\u00a0won\u2019t be too happy about this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the very moment when it was announced that Innsbruck, Austria, will be hosting the 2018 UCI Road World Championships [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":146001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[752,753],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-145998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2018-road-world-championships","tag-innsbruck"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The 2018 Road World Championships Course Leaked and Looks Insane - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"At the very moment when it was announced that Innsbruck, Austria, will be hosting the 2018 UCI Road World Championships it was crystal clear that the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/01\/10\/2018-road-world-championships-course-leaked-looks-insane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The 2018 Road World Championships Course Leaked and Looks Insane\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"At the very moment when it was announced that Innsbruck, Austria, will be hosting the 2018 UCI Road World Championships it was crystal clear that the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/01\/10\/2018-road-world-championships-course-leaked-looks-insane\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"\u0160koda We Love Cycling\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-01-10T15:23:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2017\/01\/313131_3113113.webp\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/webp\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Frantiska Blazkova\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/01\/10\/2018-road-world-championships-course-leaked-looks-insane\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2017\/01\/10\/2018-road-world-championships-course-leaked-looks-insane\/\",\"name\":\"The 2018 Road World Championships Course Leaked and Looks Insane - 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