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Video: Last fine tuning ahead of the Worlds

Team training camps are always a mix of training, gear testing and preparation, alongside some free time for the riders and staff to relax together. Davide Cassani’s Italian selection for the 2018 world championships set up camp there to fine-tune the riders’ preparation, build team spirit, and create the right atmosphere to move to Innsbruck on Thursday and try to take the rainbow jersey on Sunday. Enjoy the ride!

Quiz: How well do you know the World Championships?

To celebrate the 2018 UCI Road World Championships taking place in Innsbruck, Austria, we have decided to give away two 2018 Italian National Team kits (jersey, bibs, cap, and socks). Prove how well you know the UCI World Championships for a chance to win.

2018 UCI Road World Championships – Everything you need to know!

What’s your opinion? who’s going to win? You probably have an opinion about the new world champion yourself. Leave your name in the comments below, predicting who you think will win on Sunday. The 2018 UCI Road World Championships are taking place this week – from September 23 to 30 – in Innsbruck, Austria. This is Austria’s third time hosting the road cycling world championships. From the moment you fly or drive into Innsbruck, mountains dominate the view. Mighty and majestic, they will undoubtedly make for a magnificent backdrop this week when more than a thousand elite cyclists will compete for medals and rainbow stripes in Tyrol at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships. LET’S GO RIDE We set out to ride one lap of the Olympic circuit that the riders will face seven times on Sunday, adding in the extremely steep and narrow Höttinger Höll, dubbed “Highway to Höll,” 11 kilometers from the finish. ELITE MEN’S ROAD WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP COURSE The elite men’s road race looks set to be one of the toughest in history, with 4,670 meters of elevation gain over a distance of 258.5 kilometers. So it makes sense that the best ...

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2018 UCI Road World Championships, News - September 25, 2018

Photo Essay: Team Italia meet up in Torbole

Torbole is a lovely, quiet town at the north end of Lake Garda in Italy’s Trentino province. Davide Cassani’s Italian selection for the 2018 world championships set up camp there to fine-tune the riders’ preparation, build team spirit, and create the right atmosphere to move to Innsbruck on Thursday and try to take the rainbow jersey on Sunday. Team training camps are always a mix of training, gear testing and preparation, alongside some free time for the riders and staff to relax together. Tuesday was the first day at the lovely Aktivhotel Santa Lucia, where mechanics found a great environment to work on the bikes, as this is a bike hotel ready to welcome riders with all the necessary tools and a dream work area. After a generous breakfast, the riders were ready to head out on a four-hour group ride, which would include the Monte Velo climb. It’s a 10-kilometer climb with a steady 8-9 percent gradient. Alessandro Bertolini, a former pro rider living near Torbole, helped Cassani from the car, deciding the route and leading the group in the right direction. He knows Monte Velo like his own backyard and says it’s the perfect climb to test your ...

History: Road World Championships

The very first championships were held in 1921 in Copenhagen, Denmark. However, the only event that was contested that year was the men’s road race for amateurs. The first professional world championships took place in July 1927, hosted at the Nürburgring in Germany, where Alfredo Binda led an Italian one-two-three (Alfredo Binda, Costante Girardengo, Domenico Piemontesi) to win the first of his three world titles. Alfredo Binda won three world titles in his career (1927, 1930 and 1932). A record later equalled by Rik Van Steenbergen, Eddy Merckx, Óscar Freire and Peter Sagan). A massive breakthrough for women’s cycling came in 1958, when the women’s road world championships were introduced in Reims, France. The Luxembourg rider Elsy Jacobs got to pop the Champagne after becoming the first women’s world champion, ahead of Tamara Novikova and Mariya Lukshina of the Soviet Union. Elsy Jacobs waves to the crowd after winning the first women’s cycling World Road Race Championship in Reims, France, 1958. Over the years, further categories and races (men’s and women’s: Junior, Under 23 and Elite) were added to the program, which now spreads over an eight-day period in September, starting just one week after the final grand tour of the ...