11 Days in August
Cycling Plus UK|August 2023
For the first time, a combined UCI Cycling World Championships will take place in Glasgow this August (3-13). We hear from athletes, coaches and pundits from across the world of cycle sport about a much-anticipated 11 days of action
By John Whitney
11 Days in August

One of the first things I admit to Felix Young, the coach of Great Britain's cycle-ball team, in our video call is that, until researching this article, I hadn't known his sport - essentially football on bicycles - even existed. "I'm not convinced the people who signed off [on the championships] did either!" he says. "But it's partly what David Lappartient [the president of cycling's governing body, the UCI] was trying to do with Glasgow, to give the smaller disciplines like ours more of a platform. These conversations are only happening because of that."

The 'Glasgow' he mentions are the 2023 UCI Cycling Worlds. Not just a Road Worlds or a Track Worlds, organised individually at different times of the year, but a universal Cycling Worlds, where 13 cycle sport disciplines (winter's cyclo-cross is a necessary omission) unite under the same championships, with their respective rainbow jerseys the iconic garment awarded to winners on the line. This pedal-powered jamboree takes place over 11 days this August (3-13) and, despite its name, is not limited to the boundaries of Scotland's biggest city, with mountain biking in Fort William and Glentress Forest, the gran fondo in Perthshire, para-cycling in Dumfries and Galloway, road races starting in the capital, Edinburgh, and time trials in Stirling. It's the first combined championships, with over 8,000 amateur and professional cyclists battling for 190 rainbow jerseys. The idea is that it will be held every four years in the summer prior to the Olympics and is a key manifesto pledge fulfilled by Lappartient, who envisaged it as an egalitarian way to spread the wealth across the disciplines, with the giants of the road and track sharing the public gaze with the minnows of cycle-ball and artistic cycling.

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