{"id":193588,"date":"2023-08-02T09:37:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=193588"},"modified":"2023-08-02T09:37:44","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T09:37:44","slug":"a-menu-of-cant-miss-treats-at-the-uci-cycling-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2023\/08\/02\/a-menu-of-cant-miss-treats-at-the-uci-cycling-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"A Menu of Can\u2019t-Miss Treats at the UCI Cycling World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships kick off on August 3 in Glasgow and offer eleven days of don\u2019t-you-dare-miss events across seven disciplines showcasing the best bike riders on the globe.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the highlights will certainly be the elite men\u2019s road race, which will be held on August 6. The course from Edinburgh to Glasgow is very lumpy, with a total elevation of 3,570 m over its 271.1 km distance. The race ends with ten 14.3 km laps, including a 200-metre climb with an average slope of 13.9%, in the Scottish capital. The route should suit the leading Classics riders. Fortunately, the four best male one-day racers in the world \u2013 Tadej Poga\u010dar (Slovenia), Mathieu van der Poel (Netherlands), Wout van Aert and defending world road race champion Remco Evenepoel (both Belgium) \u2013 are all scheduled to start, so it should be a cracking race featuring early breakaways and late head-to-head confrontations. Imagine all four of these riders racing towards the finish line with less than 1 km to go. It gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.<\/p>\n

The elite women\u2019s road race should be just as exciting, as the riders who recently made the Tour de France Femmes with Zwift (TdFF) an eight-day feast of non-stop excitement will all line up on August 13. TdFF GC winner Demi Vollering, retiring legend Annemiek van Vleuten and the great Classics rider Marianne Vos (all the Netherlands) will race against TdFF runner-up and \u0160koda Green Jersey winner Lotte Kopecky (Belgium), European ITT champion Marlen Reusser (Switzerland) and TdFF third and Queen of the Mountains winner Katarzyna Niewiadoma (Poland) in a race that should be tense and exciting until the finish.<\/p>\n

The 154.1-km course from Loch Lomond to Glasgow is every bit as lumpy as the men\u2019s and should therefore also favour the hardened Classics riders such as Kopecky and Vos. In 2022, van Vleuten outsprinted Kopecky to the finish line, with Niewiadoma, Germany\u2019s Liane Lippert, Elisa Longo Borghini of Italy and other leading riders all finishing just 1 second behind the winner. This year\u2019s winner could easily come from one of last year\u2019s also-rans.<\/p>\n

The women\u2019s Elite ITT course covers 36.2 km, has a steep ramp at the finish and could be a replay of the TdFF time trial, which was narrowly won by Reusser over Vollering. It takes place on August 10, one day before the men race against the clock. The men\u2019s course covers 47.8 km and is flat, with a total elevation of only 352 m. This should be a race for the time-trial specialists, such as last year\u2019s surprise winner Tobias Foss (Norway) and last year\u2019s runner-up Stefan K\u00fcng. And don\u2019t be surprised if Evenepoel wins both the road race and the ITT.<\/p>\n

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1 DAY TO GO\u203c\ufe0f<\/p>\n

Aye…you read that right \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n

There's only 1 DAY TO GO until the biggest cycling event…EVER\u203c\ufe0f#GlasgowScotland2023<\/a> | #PowerOfTheBike<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/s2490cEjyL<\/a><\/p>\n

— 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships (@CyclingWorlds) August 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n