The International Cycling Union (UCI) is looking for a new host for the 2020 World Road Cycling Championships due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Switzerland can no longer host the week-long event in late September after a national decision to extend a ban on events with more than 1,000 people through next month.
Amid reports the competition has been canceled, the UCI clarified Wednesday that it still hopes to hold it in some form, perhaps without some of the junior or senior races.
It now seeks an “alternative project,” preferably still in Europe and on the same dates (Sept. 20-27).
Worlds were due to start in Switzerland on the same day that the rescheduled Tour de France ends, though the senior elite men’s races are typically not on the first three days.
The Tour de France is still scheduled to start Aug. 29.
Last year, American Chloe Dygert starred at road worlds, winning the time trial in dominant fashion. Other world champions in Olympic events: Annemiek van Vleuten (road race), Rohan Dennis (time trial) and Mads Pedersen (road race).
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