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The 2027 UCI Cycling World Championships isn't Glasgow 2023 with extra events bolted on. It's 20 disciplines, 15,000 athletes, 288 titles across 12 venues in Haute-Savoie — a restructuring of what a Worlds even is. Gravel finally joins the combined event, four years after the UCI Gravel World Championships launched on their own in 2022.
Glasgow brought together 13 disciplines and 7,000 athletes from 131 nations across 9 venues. 2027 nearly triples the athlete count and adds seven disciplines, including two — indoor speedway cycling and polo-biking — holding their first-ever World Championships. Lappartient's framing explains the scale: «Why limit ourselves to five? Why not include our various competitions of the year?» Two million spectators on-site and a projected billion-strong TV audience are the numbers that follow from that question.
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2027 combined UCI World Championships to include 20 disciplines, including Gravel, with demanding road circuit in SallanchesThe UCI unveils the outline of the 2027 UCI Cycling World Championships in Haute-Savoie (France)The competition sites of the UCI 2027 World Championships in Haute-Savoie have been officially announcedWomen's road race to close out 'super' World Championships in 2027 as schedule for Haute-Savoie outlined
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