The 2026 World Championships in Montral are already underway. And that means that UCI has the opportunity to make some key decisions regarding the sport's future. Among others, where will some of the future editions take place. Thus far, we already know that the second Cycling "Super" World Champio...

Rian Mc Crystal, Hugh Og Mulhearne and Freddie Winkley ride the junior mens road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Montral on Thursday 24 September, Irelands only riders on the opening day of the road races.The three carry bibs 106, 107 and 108 in a field of 152 from 61 nations. Racing starts at 18:30 Irish time, with the nations presentation on the start-finish podium beforehand Ireland is presented alongside Japan at 16:35 Irish time (11:35 in Montral).Mc Crystal and Winkley both rode the junior time trial on Tuesday, finishing 52nd and 46th. Mulhearne rides his first event of the championships.The womens under-23 road race opens the day at 14:00 Irish time, 113 riders from 41 nations. Ireland has no entry.Both races finish at Parc Jeanne-Mance on the Mount Royal circuit, 13.45km a lap with 161 metres of climbing over Camillien-Houde.Womens U23 Road Race StartlistParc Jeanne-Mance 14:00 Irish time (09:00 Montral) 113 ridersAINAIN 5 riders96Alena BOGDANOVAAIN97Elizaveta BORAIN98Liliya ISMAGILOVAAIN99Valeriya KOVIAZINAAIN100Anastasiya SAMSONOVAAINARGARG 2 riders85Abril CAPDEVILAARG86Delfina DIBELLAARGAUSAUS 6 riders25Talia APPLETONAUS26Mackenzie COUPLANDAUS27Emily DIXONAUS28Sophia SAMMONSAUS29Tully SCHWEITZERAUS30 WILSON-HAFFENDENAUSAUTAUT 1 riders87Tabea HUYSAUTBELBEL 5 riders20Lore DE SCHEPPERBEL21Febe JOORISBEL22Tess MOERMANBEL23Fleur MOORSBEL24Emma SIEGERSBELBENBEN 1 riders58Georgette VIGNONFODOBENBOLBOL 1 riders102Sara TORRICOBOLCANCAN 5 riders15Ava HOLMGRENCAN16Isabella HOLMGRENCAN17Kiara LYLYKCAN18Sidney SWIERENGACAN19Alexandra VOLSTADCANCHICHI 2 riders106Florencia MONSALVEZCHI107Marlen ROJASCHICHNCHN 5 riders49Haixin DONGCHN50Shengning WANGCHN51Tingting WANGCHN52Xiaoyan XUCHN53Qing ZHAOCHNCOLCOL 3 riders59Natalia GARZONCOL60Angie LONDOOCOL61Juliana LONDOOCOLCZECZE 3 riders67Julia KOPECKCZE68Elika KVASNIKOVCZE69Barbora NMCOVCZEDENDEN 2 riders56Silje ANTVORSKOVDEN57 NORRID-MORTENSENDENDOMDOM 1 riders112Melsey PEREZDOMECUECU 1 riders92Natalie REVELOECUESPESP 5 riders38Leyre ALMENAESP39Irati ARANGURENESP40Paula OSTIZESP41Ayala SERRANOESP42Celia TORRESESPESTEST 2 riders54Elisabeth EBRASEST55Laura Lizette SANDERESTETHETH 3 riders82Mieraf AREGAWIETH83Mebrhit GIRMAYETH84Tsige KIROSETHFINFIN 1 riders91Wilma AINTILAFINFRAFRA 5 riders1Julie BEGOFRA2Marion BUNELFRA3Ema COMTEFRA4Amandine MULLERFRA5Titia RYOFRAGBRGBR 5 riders6Catrin FERGUSONGBR7Abigail MILLERGBR8Awen ROBERTSGBR9Imogen WOLFFGBR10Morven YEOMANGBRGERGER 4 riders43Justyna CZAPLAGER44Clara JGERGER45Magdalena LEISGER46Jolle Amlie MESSEMERGERGUAGUA 2 riders93Jazmin PUACGUA94Andrea VASQUEZGUAINAINA 3 riders88Shafa AL ZAHRAINA89Nihayatuzzain ASSHOFIINA90Ida Ayu Manik DEWIINAISRISR 1 riders101Adar SHRIKIISRITAITA 3 riders31Eleonora CIABOCCOITA32Gaia SEGATOITA33Giada SILOITAJPNJPN 2 riders108Ayana MIZUTANIJPN109Rena TANAKAJPNLUXLUX 2 riders80Gwen NOTHUMLUX81Liv WENZELLUXMEXMEX 3 riders103Gissel BORBONMEX104Atzi REYESMEX105Mayte ZAMUDIOMEXMRIMRI 1 riders111 CHASTEAU DE BALYONMRINEDNED 4 riders11Megan ARENSNED12Rosita REIJNHOUTNED13Babette VAN DER WOLFNED14Nienke VINKENEDNORNOR 2 riders47Camilla Rnes BYENOR48Oda Aune GISSINGERNORPOLPOL 5 riders62Laura CHOMAPOL63Nadia HARTMANPOL64Malwina MULPOL65Urszula SIPKOPOL66Maja TRACKAPOLPORPOR 1 riders113Raquel DIASPORRWARWA 2 riders75Mariate BYUKUSENGERWA76Jazilla MWAMIKAZIRWASUISUI 3 riders77Lea HUBERSUI78Anina HUTTERSUI79Mara WINTERSUISVKSVK 3 riders34Nina ANDACKSVK35Viktria CHLADOOVSVK36Sofia UNGEROVSVKSWESWE 1 riders95Stina KAGEVISWEUKRUKR 1 riders110Milana USHAKOVAUKRUSAUSA 5 riders70Mia ASELTINEUSA71Lidia CUSACKUSA72Kylee HANELUSA73Alyssa SARKISOVUSA74Katherine SARKISOVUSAUZBUZB 1 riders37Viktoriya POLZUNOVAUZBJunior Mens Road Race StartlistParc Jeanne-Mance 18:30 Irish time (13:30 Montral) 152 ridersALGALG 2 riders109 BECHELAGHEMALG110Selmane MANSOURIALGANDAND 1 riders111Eric SINFREU LEALANDAUSAUS 5 riders41Benjamin COATESAUS42Alistair FORSYTHAUS43Ollie JIROVECAUS44Lachlan STEWARTAUS45Connor WRIGHTAUSAUTAUT 4 riders51Michael HETTEGGERAUT52Michael ORTNERAUT53Niklas WIESMAYRAUT54Santiago WROLICHAUTBELBEL 4 riders26Vic DE SMETBEL27Bas VANDEN EYNDEBEL28Yasu VERVOORTBEL29Sander WILLEMSBELBIZBIZ 2 riders112Keith ENWRIGHT JR.BIZ113Devyn MAJORBIZBOLBOL 1 riders114Matias Adrian STRONGBOLBRABRA 2 riders115Bruno DA SILVABRA116Dimas Felipe MOTABRACANCAN 4 riders55Albert BROUILLETTECAN56Carter DEVEERCAN57Zachari MOREAUCAN58Amos SCOTT BOURISCANCAYCAY 1 riders117Ryan THOMPSONCAYCHICHI 2 riders98Jaime CARREOCHI99Benjamin PEREZCHICOLCOL 3 riders92Alejandro PAMPLONACOL93Jos Manuel POSADACOL94Juan Esteban SANCHEZCOLCZECZE 3 riders46Daniel KUBNACZE47Marek STIBLKCZE48Jakub TESAKCZEDENDEN 4 riders30Julius 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A new website promoting Irelands greenways mostly rural shared walking and cycling routes has been launched by the Department of Transport.Greenways.gov.ie includes route information and maps for most of Irelands longer greenways.The website includes details such as the distance, elevation, estimated travel times, the surface finish of the greenways, and the facilities available along different parts of routes, including public transport access, park and ride and toilets.As well as the online map, each route also has a PDF map and a GPX track which can be loaded into mapping apps.While there are warnings about surfacings, there are no warnings about restrictive barriers, which exclude many users and make it harder for loaded touring cyclists.Current inaccuraciesThe online mapping for the South Kerry Greenway on the website accurately shows how only some sections are built. But then confusingly uses solid green lines for sections of greenways which are not yet finished, including the Dublin 15 section of the Royal Canal Greenway and the Dublin City section of the Grand Canal Greenway.On the Grand Canal Greenway, the map warns of sections currently closed, but on the Carlingford Lough Greenway there is no such warning for the large closure and detour into a busy main road due to the construction of the Narrow Water Bridge.The website also inaccurately shows a mud surface on sections of the Royal Canal towpath in Dublin 15 that were recently repaved with a dust surface finish.

"It'll be a bit of a shitshow," one team manager warned me beforehand.At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, I found myself corralled with hundreds of the world's best cyclists, waiting for the motos to roll us out.It felt like a gran fondo with an extraordinary entry list. Wout van Aert, Remco Evenepoel, Mathieu van der Poel, Isaac del Toro, Demi Vollering, Kasia Niewiadoma, Lotte Kopecky: a who's who of cycling, out there alongside juniors and under-23s, all waiting to get onto the same stretch of road.And, well, me.It was recon day at the UCI Road World Championships in Montral: a two-hour window on closed roads in which riders could scout the technical city circuit for the upcoming road races. For weeks, months even, they had been studying maps and elevation profiles. Now they could turn those diagrams into something they could see, feel and remember, provided they could find enough room.I had joined a group of New Zealanders for the ride, rolling out from their downtown hotel towards the start line. Like everyone else at Worlds, their matching national jerseys suggested a uniformity. Their bikes and helmets, however, advertised the trade teams they call home for most of the season.Worlds offers compatriots one of the few chances to become teammates. Today's objective was learning the road. Learning how to work with the people wearing your jersey would have to happen in race meetings, on daily rides and during the downtime in between.When the motos moved, we rolled away together. Riders chatted and laughed, and pulled phones from jersey pockets to collect something for social media later. Some junior men were getting air over speed bumps or showing off their wheelies. It had the crowded, sociable feel of a neutral rollout.From the start line we descended for about 200 metres before heading straight into Camillien-Houde, the climb that could very well decide the outcome of these championships. It arrived too soon for the mass of riders to spread out, so we tackled it together.About half a lap in, without warning, the unofficial neutral rollout ended. Up ahead, a little space had opened up, someone put some power through the pedals, and the pack began to stretch. Groups that had been riding socially were suddenly strung out in single file with riders testing their legs and picking lines at speed.No one was calling out potholes or cracks anymore, yet Montral's streets were littered with them. And while I was grateful for my loaner bike, I was sorely wishing its tubed 25mm tyres were tubeless 30s instead.Everyone seemed mindful because nobody wants to ruin their chances of a medal on recon day - but we were still screaming downhill in a crowd that mixed the literal best cyclists in the world with 17-year-olds still learning to ride in the bunch. That directeur sportif had had a point.(Image credit: Anne-Marije Rook)By lap two, the various purposes of the recon became apparent. Some riders, like Niamh Fisher-Black and Remco Evenepoel, were taking an easy look around. Others were putting in efforts or testing how a climb or corner felt at speed. On Camemillien-House the second time, Zoe Bckstedt came zooming past me, fully in the zone. And I spotted Kasia Niewiadoma-Phinney cutting the course to repeat a particular section. Still others tried to fit as many complete laps as possible into the limited time available.Who they rode with varied, too. Van der Poel had his longtime training partner Freddy Ovett for company. Others rode with team managers or coaches - often zooming by on little vespas/scooters.New Zealand junior Mia Collins had programme's manager, Dan Gardner, a former professional cyclist to help guide her. With Collins on his wheel, Gardner showed her lines through corners, where to stay alert and where she would need to be near the front of the bunch come race day.For riders who'd already pre-ridden the circuit, the closed roads offered a chance to check the details and to finalise decisions around gearing and tyre choices. "This circuit is so short and technical with a couple of laps, you can pretty much get it in your head and you just need to memorize a couple key points," said Fisher-Black, who won silver in last year's event. For her, today was meant to be an easy day, which was a good thing, too, because she didn't think anything more could happen during recon. "I'll do a few laps today but it's an easy training day for me," Fisher-Black told me. "Anyone trying to do proper training today can give up."The championship's defining circuit follows roads familiar to anyone who has raced or watched the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montral. It measures just 13.4 km (8.3 miles), but packs in 269 metres (883 feet) of climbing per lap. Repetition is the problem: as Fisher-Black put it, the climb could be "cumulatively decisive".It never felt flat. We were either climbing, descending, negotiating bends or finding a way around road furniture. Technical and punchy, it makes for an attritional race at full speed, the kind where riders drop off lap after lap until only the strongest remain.Of course, three laps around the course can only tell you so much. The preceding flat(ish) run-in, the repeated climbing, and all the tactics that can happen between efforts, leaves room for several outcomes. Fisher-Black cautioned against naming a definitive favourite for the course. "So many different people can win here," she said. "Every [move] is dangerous at Worlds."(Image credit: Getty Images)The end of the recon ride did not mean the end of the day's obligations. Riders still had broadcast headshots to sit for. These are the faces that will appear on screen when the race gives the television director a reason to introduce them.Then came the bike checks, particularly for the juniors and under-23s riders who'll be first to tackle the course. Junior gearing restrictions are no longer in effect, but there is still plenty for the UCI commissaires to inspect: frame and fork approval, the minimum weight of 6.8 kg, and those carefully optimised riding positions. Even the angle of the brake hoods has its own measuring gauge, checking that their inward tilt stays within 10 degrees of the handlebar drops.For mass-start road racing, handlebars must measure at least 400 mm across their outside edges, including tape, with at least 280 mm between the innermost points of the brake hoods. Riders who had angled theirs a little too enthusiastically - and there were a few - were told to straighten them before racing or risk being disqualified.With the photos and checks finished, it was back to the hotels for lunch, team meetings, stretching and whatever downtime remained.The manager's warning had been fair. But amid the jumble, hundreds of riders had been getting what they came for: a corner taken at speed, a pinch point committed to memory, a better sense of where they will need to be when the action heats up. The elites still have a few days to refine their plans. But for the under-23 women and junior men, it's an early bedtime and race day tomorrow. Both face ten laps of the circuit.The women's under-23 road race starts at 9 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 24, followed by the junior men at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

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