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Qatar has been awarded the 2016 UCI Road World Championships, it was announced Wednesday. Cyclingnews first revealed in August that the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:bid was on track, with this year’s Wo𝕴rlds in Valkenburg named as the locatioꦗn for the Qatar announcement.  No dates have yet been announced.

At the London Olympic Games a source close to the UCI told Cyclingnews that Qatar was the only bid ꦺleft in the race and that the Qatari delegation pressed for an exclusive agreement that would rule 🃏out any competition.

"There is no other candidate for 2016, only Qatar," the source said. "Qatar and the UCI agreed to secure aꦬn exclusive application. The date might be delayed to avoid the heat but it's ꧅moving ahead."

Today's announcement broke when the Qatar Olympic Committee Tweꦆeted, "The #Qatar #WRCC2016 announcement came in the final day of the Board of Directors Session of @UCI_cycling Union in #Limburg".

The UCI l🌌ater sent out a press release with the UCI Sport and Technical Director Philippe Chevallier saying: "The management of the Qatar candidature presented an extremely interesting project which incorporated innovative solutions w🦂hich allowed for the designing of a technically interesting course , we are greatly looking forward to working with them."

201🌳6 will be the first time the road Worlds are held in the Middle East.

However, doubts remain over the 2014 Worlds. Th𓆉e UCI statement read, "Concerning the UC🌠I Road World Championships 2014, the Management Committee decided to grant the organizers of the Ponferrada (ESP) event 30 days to meet contractual commitments, after which time if these had not been met the event would be withdrawn from them."