In a shock improvement on Tuesday, the UCI introduced the 2025 Gravel World Championships would not be held in Nice, France on October 18-19.
A seek for a brand new host venue, and presumably a brand new calendar date, will start instantly, with the Championships simply eight months away. Mathieu van der Poel received the boys’s Gravel world title in 2024, with Marianne Vos profitable the ladies’s race.
“The UCI and the City of Nice acknowledged the difficulties of organising the occasion within the capital of the French Riviera on that date, and in view of varied constraints, technical and concerning the calendar, it was mutually agreed to not set up the 4th version of the UCI worlds for gravel in Nice,” an announcement from the UCI learn.
The UCI indicated within the quick assertion that “varied choices” had been already accessible and so they had been finding out these choices for each a brand new venue and new organiser.
The first two editions of the UCI Gravel World Championships had been hosted in Veneto, Italy and final yr in Leuven, Belgium.
The subsequent 4 editions had been set to happen throughout three continents – Nice in 2025; Nannup, Western Australia in 2026; Haute-Savoie, France in 2027; and Alula, Saudi Arabia in 2028.
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