First road world championships in Africa should be cause for celebration – instead the sport is mired in controversy
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frica’s first hosting of the road world championships should be a moment of celebration for cycling and the continent but Rwanda instead finds itself the backdrop to a sport mired in infighting and controversy.
The Vuelta a España ended on Sunday after three weeks of racing characterised by mass pro-Palestinian demonstrations against the presence of the Israel-Premier Tech team.
The denouement of all that chaos for race winner Jonas Vingegaard, runner-up João Almeida and third-placed finisher Tom Pidcock was cheap champagne and a makeshift podium in a hotel car park.
