The Cycling Worlds canceled?

Towards a cancellation of the next Cycling Worlds? Scheduled next September in Kigali in Rwanda (September 21 to 28), and therefore in Africa for the first time in history, the appointment could be canceled, according to the Spanish Média Révo, which advances several reasons for these increasingly strong threats that hover over these 2025 world championships.

The main reason concerns the political situation on the spot which seems a little more tense. The fault in the first place in the conflict between Rwanda in the name of the M23 armed group to the Democratic Republic of Congo, its neighbor. A war that has already killed 7,000 and could therefore force the UCI to give up organizing these first African Worlds. Especially since other reasons do not seem to plead for the maintenance of the event.

Some countries have already announced the color …

Thus, the cost of traveling to Kigali, very (too?) Earn in the eyes of many concerned, but also the obligation to be vaccinated against yellow fever – otherwise, the person does not obtain the right to enter Rwandan soil – would also tend to cool the runners of the peloton, more and more fearful at the idea of ​​rubbing (dengue, malerae, cholera …) Little present in Kigali itself but developed in the rest of Kenya and not really seduced there either the health risks of such displacement.

For some sports directors, one of whom has confided in the microphone of our colleagues from RMC Sport, vaccination, which would also oblige runners to give up some of their objectives, would however constitute to date with the armed conflict the major reason for this increasingly large desire to see the UCI cancel these Worlds in Kigali. For all these factors, the European Parliament has already officially requests it recently. Some countries have already warned that they would not send their representatives under these conditions.