2025 World Cycling Championships in Rwanda: "We will have to work very hard"

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The International Cycling Union (UCI) formalized Friday, September 24 the holding of the world road championships in 2025 in Rwanda, a first for the African continent.

(Here, the riders of Team Rwanda, in November 2015, celebrate the victory of the Tour of Rwanda won by their compatriot Jean Bosco Nsengimana).

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By: Thomas-Sean de Saint Leger Follow

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The World Cycling Championships end this Sunday, September 26 in Leuven, Belgium, where, on Friday, the Steering Committee of the International Cycling Union (UCI), announced the award of the 2025 edition of the competition, in Rwanda. , the first African country to host this event.

An honor and inevitably challenges for the land of a thousand hills.

To evoke them, the president of the Rwandan Cycling Federation, Abdallah Murenzi, is the guest of Thomas de Saint-Léger.

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