UCI president David Lappartient has confirmed that the 2025 UCI Road World Championships will be held in Africa, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Rwand𝐆a facing competition from Morocco. However, Rwanda is the firm fav🎃ourite to host the first World Championships on African soil.
Lap♈partient was at the Tour of Rwanda on M༒onday and then held high-level talks with officials and Rwanda President Paul Kagame.
Lapparitient has been supportive of Rwanda’s bid since he became UCI President in 2017. 168澳洲5ꦬ最新开奖结果:R📖wanda formally submitted a bid two years ago and has reportedly produced a detailed and convincing b♕id doc🥀ument.
"The World Championship will take place in Africa in 2025♋,🐟 that's for sure," Lappartient told
"We have two bids, from Kigali (the capital of Rwanda) a﷽nd also ꦫTangier, in Morocco."
According to L’Equipe, Rwanda is the clear favourite to win the ꩵrace to host the World Championships.
"Rwanda has taken a serious lead, their case is very solid with already existing infrastructure and enormous possibilities for adaptation," L’Equipe quoted an unidentified source as saying.
"It’s a candidacy that ticks a lot of boxes, it&rs💯quo;s the favourite because it would also bring a sense of renewal to cycling."
Rwanda has enforced strict anti-COVID-19 measures and so avoided the worst of the global pandemic. The Tour du Rwanda has roots back to 1988 as a regional race, and was elevated to the international UCI calendar in 2008. This year’s race was postponed from February to May, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Israel Start-Up Nation, Total Direct Energie, Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec a🅺nd 🎐B&B Hotels taking on Continental and local teams.
Brayan Sanchez (Team Medellin) won the opening stage, w✤ith Alan Boileau (B&B Hotels) winning stage 2 and 18-year-old Colombian Santiago Umba (Androni Giocattoli) taking the race lead. The Tour du Rwanda ends in Kigali on Sunday after eight stages of racing.
UCI officials are due to visit Rwanda and Morocco to study thꦓe technical details of their bids in the summer, with the UCI due to announce the host nation during this year’s World Championships in Louvain, Belgium in September.
