#2022 UCI Road World Championships

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How do you learn what a feeling means?

Frame Text: How to Draw a Horse by Emma Hunsinger References: Podium at Super Prestige Diem (2011) | "Aux racines de la rivalité entre Mathieu Van der Poel et Wout Van Aert" (L'Equipe) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Juniors (2012) | Wout trailing Mathieu at at Cyclocross World Championships Juniors (2012) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Elite (2017) | Wout winning an unknown race | "Van Aert: Van der Poel has always motivated me to beat him" (Cycling News) | Podium at Cyclocross World Cup Hoogerheide (2016) | Podium at Cyclocross World Championships Elite (2015) | Cyclocross Otegem Start Line (2017) | "Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert: The anatomy of a rivalry" (Cycling News) | Otegem (2017) | "Mathieu van der Poel en Wout van Aert, de koningen van de cross: 'Als je niet kunt afzien, moet je gaan voetballen'" (Humo) | Otegem (2017) | Cyclocross Otegem Start Line (2018) | Cyclocross Valkenburg World Cup (2016) | "LOENHOUT: Super Van Aert wins a Trofee 'super modder' + MORE PHOTOS & TV COVERAGE" (Cyclocross Rider) | "The van der Poel-van Aert rivalry: 'It’s impossible for us to be friends'" (Le Course en Tête) | Podium at 18th Superprestige Heusden-Zolder Elite (2022) | Wout and Mathieu after an unknown race (2014) | Mathieu and Wout during the Cyclocross World Championships (2016) | Wout touching Mathieu's back after the Cyclocross World Cup Namur (2020) | Wout and Mathieu after the Tour of Flanders (2020) | Wout and Mathieu after the UCI World Championships - Road (2023)

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It is fire's nature to strive upward

Mathieu van der Poel, 2024 Paris-Roubaix (Gruber Images) | Dictionary.com | Remco Evenepoel, 2022 Liège-Bastogne-Liège (Gruber Images) | Jonas Vingegaard, 2022 Tour de France Stage 11 (Team Jumbo Visma) | "Fire and Ice" (Robert Frost) | Tadej Pogačar, 2023 Tour de France Stage 9 (Gruber Images) | Jonas Vingegaard, 2023 Tour de France Stage 17 (Gruber Images) | Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World (John Vaillant) | Felix Gall, 2023 Tour de France Stage 17 (Marco Bertorello/AFP/Getty Images) | Tour de France: Unchained, Episode 4 | Mathieu van der Poel, 2023 UCI Road World Championships (Gruber Images) | "Horses" (Wendell Berry) | Dictionary.com | Marc Soler and Tadej Pogačar, 2023 Tour de France Stage 17 (Gruber Images) | "Horses" (Wendell Berry) | Giulio Ciccone, 2023 Tour de France Stage 14 (Marco Bertorello/Getty Images) | Tadej Pogačar, 2023 Tour de France Stage 9 (UAE Team Emirates) | "Tour de France races on to Carcassonne despite 40°C heatwave" (CyclingNews) | Dictionary.com | Jonas Vingegaard, 2022 Tour de France Stage 13 (Tim de Waele/Getty Images) | "Tour de France races on to Carcassonne despite 40°C heatwave" (CyclingNews) | "Soaring temperatures turn up the heat on Tour de France peloton: ‘It was a furnace’" (Velo Magazine) | "Tour de France 2022 Climate-Related Risks" (Janice Kai Chen/Washington Post) | Tom Pidcock, 2022 Tour de France Stage 14 (Gruber Images) | Romain Bardet, 2022 Tour de France Stage 17 (Gruber Images) | "Soaring temperatures turn up the heat on Tour de France peloton: ‘It was a furnace’" (Velo Magazine) | Gilberto Simoni, 2004 Tour de France Stage 17 (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images)

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Remco Evenepoel & Wout van Aert🇧🇪 Photoshoot - UCI Road World Championships 2022 📸 by Tim de Waele/Getty Images

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Heya Mia! 🤍, 🗓️, 🔜 and 📋

Hiya! Thank you for the ask! 🤗

🤍 Favorite pro cyclist?

I have so many. It boils down to Wout van Aert, who am I kidding, but honourable mention goes to Jacopo Guarnieri. He's a good bean.

🗓️ A race you enjoyed watching in the past?

People have comfort TV shows and films, I have comfort CX races. Val di Sole 2021 (the first one ever), Belgian national championships 2022 and lately the epic battles between Wout and Mathieu this past season (Zolder and Diegem my beloveds).

🔜 Do you try to predict results? Are you good at it?

No, because I'm epically shit at it. I feel like I don't know enough to make an educated guess and I refuse to just blindly guess a name.

Even though I've taken a part in fantasy Vuelta game because my friend has asked me to and my team isn't doing too badly.

📋 You can add, remove or change one rule in the UCI regulations. What do you do?

Okay. Listen. My biggest pet peeve in cycling is changing bikes during time trials. So I propose a time trial has to be done on a time trial special.

(I know some riders do time trials on road bikes for various reasons and that's fine.)

And a second rule, because why not: one way radio during the Olympic race and Worlds. Riders would get the important updates from the race radio about who's in the breakaway and how much time gap there is, etc. This year's Worlds were ridiculous and everyone would benefit from having actual updates. And UCI would offer the devices for the less wealthy teams.

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Meet Bikeflights Ambassador Sydney Wenger

Working a full-time career and racing mountain bikes at an elite level can be two conflicting endeavors, but Bikeflights Ambassador Sydney Wenger has found a way to make them complementary.

Sydney is a fifth grade teacher in the Roanoke, Virginia area, and she’s found a unique way to leverage her passion outside the classroom to enhance her effectiveness inside the classroom.

“I feel that being competitive in a sport helps me connect with my students in a way most teachers cannot,” said Sydney. “Many students at this age have high hopes for their futures, and I may be one of the only adults in their life who they know striving to be the best they can be or simply even following their passion.”

Sydney grew up in Ohio in a competitive cycling family, but was focused on swimming for much of her youth. Although she spent a significant amount of time immersed in the mountain bike race scene while both of her parents raced at a high level, it wasn’t until college that Sydney refocused her competitive aspirations on cycling.

“At this point, I had been swimming for 15 years and was burnt out,” she said. “When looking for colleges, I was originally going to be a dual sport athlete with cycling and swimming. Then, the cycling coach saw me ride and convinced me to just join the cycling team.”

Sydney competed in mountain biking for Union College in Kentucky, and later transferred to King University in Tennessee, giving her the opportunity to expand on her cycling disciplines into cyclocross and road racing. She graduated with a degree in Early Childhood education, but not before winning a national championship at USA Cycling Mountain Bike Nationals and earning first in her age group at the Leadville Trail 100 MTB.

In 2022, Sydney got the opportunity to race in the UCI World Cup at Snowshoe, West Virginia, competing in both the Olympic cross country and short track cross country, inspiring her to commit to UCI races across the US in 2023. Her plans to compete in five states made her a great fit for Bikeflights Ambassador program as she looked for ways to simply her travel logistics.

While she earned some prideworthy results in 2023, Sydney finds the most exciting thing about her cycling career is the opportunity to find new challenges and the opportunity to share those challenges with her students.

“After every race weekend, good or bad, I love going back on Monday and talking about how it went. They are always so happy and excited with what I have done, no matter how I placed.”

One such new challenge that was sure to be a great story for her students was the Garage Racing National Championships back in April, a unique race taking place in an underground parking garage in Arlington, Virginia.

“It was so much fun! Who can say they have ever been to a Garage Racing National Championships? I would say that considering I never race my road bike, I was pretty unprepared, but I did have a blast. I would love to go back next year!”

Despite having ridden her road bike exclusively on a stationary trainer during the previous two years, Sydney rolled through in fourth place.

But specific results are not the lesson Sydney brings back to her students with the stories of her race weekends.

“Even if I'm not winning races, I am still putting myself out there and showing them that you can do anything with hard work.”

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UCI Gravel World Championships adjusts start grid rules after 2022 controversy

Points from road, cyclocross, MTB still comprise 50% of total tally to determine start positions at October gravel races for rainbow jerseys from CyclingNews RSS Feed https://ift.tt/FPim4BE

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7 Tips To Excel In UCI Time Trials

Cycling is great sport that is inexpensive and is the best aerobics exercise for many. Well, many people are unaware of UCI time trials that are going to be organized in 2022. Let’s have a look at the main points which can help you better understand this topic.

1. Stay calm at the start and don’t push your body too hard:

Pushing your body too hard in the start is the most common mistake that beginners make. It is very easy to become over enthusiastic at the start of a race. The main reason behind the fact that you must start slowly is that if you sprint from the start you will build up lactic acid in your legs. This initial boost in the speed will slow you down for the rest of the race.

2. Maintain Calm Mental Attitude:

Don’t think of any thing and stay away from the negative thoughts take hold when racing. In short you must “remove your mind while racing” this will help you concentrate more. Keep pushing yourself and stay focused on your victory.

3. Constant Pace:

Make a constant effort at constant speed in the start and then increase the speed slowly w.r.t time. This constant power output results into quite different speeds, but it becomes the most effective mechanism to get a quicker time. However there are exceptions.

4.Stay Concentrated:

A friend of mine who is a cyclist keeps on telling me that stay focused on the race is the one of the more difficult things. The concentration required involves keeping yourself within a threshold of pain. Compete with yourself and don’t chase or follow the other contestants. Act as your own motivator. Participate in UCI time trials 2022 in Wollongong to participate in this event.

5. Practice Cornering.

Save yourself approximately 1 or 2 seconds by practicing cornering and gradually increasing your capacity and cornering ability. You can save the risk of a broken arm or worse by taking roundabouts quite cautiously.

6. Use a Power Meter:

A power meter is more useful compared to heart rate monitor. A heart rate monitor sometimes fails to provide you exact measures as you heart beat takes time to built up. Power meter is the most reliable option for road racing.

7. Practice, Practice & Practice:

This is the only way to maintain your concentration, speed and pace during the race. It is only through riding time trials that you learn how to keep track on your body movements and remove any flaws that comes in the way.

After five editions in Europe, the 2022 UCI Road World Championships make their way to Wollongong in Australia. This event will be organized by UCI with various events such as 1. Road Racing 2. Team Time Trials 3. Individual Time Trials 4. Cultural Events 5. Participation events are going to take place.

Register yourself today by visiting the link — https://wollongong2022.com.au/. Grab more information about the event today!

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🥇Annemiek van Vleuten🥇 of The Netherlands during the medal ceremony after the 95th UCI Road World Championships 2022 - Women Elite Road Race a 164,3km one day race from Helensburgh to Wollongong on September 24, 2022 in Wollongong, Australia. (Photos by Tim de Waele/Getty Images)

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Images from the 2022 UCI Road World Championships, Wollongong - Men Elite Road Race

Images from the 2022 UCI Road World Championships, Wollongong – Men Elite Road Race

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Over the last several days, Arkansas has made national headlines for passing anti-transgender legislation that Chase Strangio, deputy director for transgender justice at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) LGBT & HIV Project, described to NBC News as “the most extreme anti-trans law to ever pass through a state legislature.”

Arkansas governor Asa Hutchinson signed a law banning trans girls and women from participating in school and university sports consistent with their gender identity. And the Arkansas legislature has approved a bill that will restrict access to healthcare for trans folks.

In the cycling community, these discriminatory laws have caused some riders to call for a boycott of the state, which would include a Cyclocross World Cup event in October and the 2022 Cyclocross World Championships, both set to take place in Fayetteville. Here, transgender cyclocross legend Molly Cameronshares her thoughts on a potential boycott and how the cycling community can move toward true inclusivity.

I’m the type of person who thinks it is important to accept that people can have different views and hold different opinions. But when it comes to hate and oppression, I do not accept that.

This legislation is oppressive. It is hateful. It is telling marginalized kids that they can’t play sports because they’re different. And that they can’t have access to healthcare because they’re different. It does not appear that the reality of how discriminatory and damaging this legislation is has hit the cycling industry yet.

This past year we have seen many cycling brands talk a lot about diversity and inclusion in an effort to be seen as allies. But right now many of them aren’t saying anything or are making statements without reaching out to any transgender people or athletes. That is not allyship. Instead we’re seeing people and brands covering their asses, then complaining that they’re being inconvenienced. The LGBTQ community in cycling feels let down and angry.

Yes, a few businesses, individuals, and organizations have made statements saying that they disagree with these new laws, but I’ll be honest, the statements feel performative. To just write up a quick statement that you’re ‘upset about these laws and disagree with them, but you are just going to keep doing what you are doing because you are a good person’ … That is not actually doing anything. I would love it if those with power and influence came together with the LGBTQ community to start a dialogue and come up with some action plans.

So, let’s talk about the power of a boycott. Arkansas is host to more than just two big cyclocross races: There are huge gravel events, there are mountain bike races, there are road races, and there are millions of dollars in cycling tourism in Arkansas at this moment. Imagine the impact if those dollars dried up.

As someone deeply invested in the cyclocross community for the last two decades, I understand why the World Championships and World Cup are the events people are talking about the most. They are major international races organized by the UCI that shine a spotlight on cycling in the United States.

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and USA Cycling (USAC) both have constitutions and mission statements that run counter to these new laws. The UCI constitution states that it will hold activities “without racial, political, religious, gender-related or other discrimination.” Meanwhile the USAC says, “We believe that sport is inclusive. People should feel comfortable participating in cycling, regardless of gender, gender identity, race, class, or any other perceived difference.”

Technically, the UCI World Championships aren’t governed by Arkansas’s new rules for scholastic sport, but consider this: The junior and U23 field at Worlds is made up of athletes in the age groups that are directly impacted by this rule. If it was a college event—for instance, collegiate cyclocross Nationals—being held in Arkansas, USA Cycling would be forced to confront the issue more head-on. As it stands, the National Interscholastic Cycling League in Arkansas (and at the national level) certainly will have to come forward with a policy since many of the teams are school-based and thus would be subject to the new law.

Worlds race director Brook Watts called the laws discriminatory and hateful in an open letter that he posted on his personal Twitter, but also asked the cycling community to not boycott the event. I wish he would have at least mentioned exploring the option of moving to a venue outside of Arkansas instead of defending the volunteers and work the race organization and city has done already. Moving a World Championship race isn’t without precedent: When the U.S. held the World Championships in 2013, the whole event was forced to move the day before the race because of flooding. Right now, we have 10 months until Worlds on January 29 and 30, 2022.

I’ve promoted races before, so I get it: It’s not a simple task to make venue changes. Normally, you’re just worried about pounding in stakes and setting a course, and suddenly your entire event is in jeopardy because the state you’re hosting it in has done something awful.

Will it be hard on businesses and events based in Arkansas if there’s a boycott of cycling tourism and races there? Of course. But they are not the victims. In fact, people like a race director for a major international sporting event are in positions of influence. Our national cycling governing body has power and influence, as do all of the global brands invested in cycling in Arkansas. They can absolutely affect change in the state.

The real victims are the young people navigating identity and just trying to be themselves in a state that clearly does not care about them. Being transgender is challenging and potentially dangerous, and it’s especially hard for transgender youth. I don’t feel bad for the businesses. I ache for the young people who will be affected by these laws, who won’t be able to access critical healthcare or know the joy of playing sports and being welcome and accepted into an athletic community.

If there is a boycott yes, it will be inconvenient. But give me a break. Growing up transgender or queer is not wildly convenient. If there is a general Arkansas boycott, these events and brands and cities must realize that while it may feel unfair, it is far more unfair to the people being oppressed. Children’s lives are at stake and these brands and event promoters may now just get a taste of the shit that the LBGTQ community has been dealing with our entire lives. (And, while these laws are hugely discriminatory and damaging to the LGBTQ community as a whole, legislation like this disproportionately impacts BIPOC members of the community.)

These human and civil rights battles are emotionally and physical draining. The last four years have been exhausting. And people don’t have long attention spans for issues like this that tend to move slowly. This won’t be resolved this week. We will be lucky if the legal challenges to the new laws are underway by the time the World Cup happens in October.

We’re waiting to see how legal action from the ACLU plays out. We’re also waiting to see how the NCAA reacts: The new legislation does not just affect cycling, it affects all scholastic sports. We saw how powerful the NCAA was when North Carolina passed similar discriminatory laws.

I don’t feel like I’ve ever been a leader in trans activism in sport—certainly, there are bigger and louder voices than mine. But I am fine being the person to write this, to speak up, to help educate and inform people and brands in bicycling. I am one of the very few out and openly transgender professional cyclists, as bike racing is not a particularly welcoming place for transgender folks. I am well-established in the cycling industry and am in a strong position to advocate for the youth being affected in Arkansas and other states. My sponsors are all aware that I will talk about this openly and they support me in it. But far too many other trans folks in the sport are in vulnerable or potentially compromising positions.

Consider that new riders, juniors and U23 athletes who may be LGBTQ, are not in a position to put their careers, personal and family lives at risk to advocate for what is clearly an uphill battle within the racing community and industry.

But if I can move this forward at all, in any way I can, then I’m all in.

You can be too. Anyone can advocate for transgender rights by paying attention, learning, and by making calls, sending emails, or donating. You can make noise and vote with your wallet. You can continue this conversation on your social media. You can lean on businesses and organizations in cycling to be accountable and make statements that include action plans and to back them up. You can ask the UCI to push for a venue change if the laws are upheld.

Strange as it is to say with everything happening right now, I’m still hopeful. Let’s be clear, these laws are massive human rights violations. But right now, the news of the bills is fresh, so I am giving these Arkansas-based events and brands a little time to decide what they’re going to do.

And while I’m not calling for a boycott at the moment, I won’t be going to the World Cup or World Championships if they stay in Arkansas. I will not be spending any money in Arkansas or any other state that is passing laws that discriminate against the LGBTQ community. But I am putting the work in and am hopeful that things will change.

Molly Cameron is an athlete that was born a man, id’s as a woman and now competes in men’s cycling because women’s cycling was’t competitive enough.

And Arkansas is near the bottom of many lists of places good for women and the ACLU focuses on this issue? Instead of issues that could help half the population of Arkansas.

Kids will still be getting healthcare, at least the one that survive Arkansas infant mortality rate, but they won’t get puberty blockers and cross sex hormones that can create isssues later in life.

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Mathieu van der Poel, Daan Hoole & Bauke Mollema ‹ UCI Road World Championships 2022 - Mixed Relay TTT ›

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Professional Cyclists are getting swooped by Magpies, but can’t put zip ties on their helmets because of aerodynamics.

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Spotlight on FayetteCross

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) Cyclo-cross circuit will make a stop in Fayetteville, Arkansas on Saturday and Sunday, October 5 and 6, 2019. The event will be hosted at Centennial Park at Millsaps Mountain, the soon-to-be developed City of Fayetteville park located at MLK Blvd and I-49.  This is the same location that will host the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2022.  With some of the best elite racers coming to FayetteCross from across the region and all over the U.S., it’s a great opportunity for spectators to see cyclo-cross racing at the highest level.  

Fayetteville is located in the Northwest corner of Arkansas and is becoming known as a hotbed for cyclists of all varieties. The region is home to elite road races such as the Joe Martin Stage Race and regularly is featured for its prime singletrack that surrounds the area which includes the Ozark National Forest. With FayetteCross in the mix, the options are infinite for planning your next visit to Fayetteville. 

FayetteCross will be hosted ar the newly created Centennial Park at Millsap Mountain, a cycling-activated park with state-of-the-art cyclo-cross and mountain bike facilities. The plan for this transformative project is supported by a grant from the Walton Family Foundation to the NWA Trailblazers, a non-profit partner in the project and the city of Fayetteville. Construction for phase 1 will be completed in time for the 2022 Cyclo-cross World Championships, which was awarded to the city in early 2019. 

Advocacy group BikeNWA is heading up the organization efforts and has recruited Brook Watts, who put on CrossVegas, the first UCI World Cup event in the U.S., as race director and course designer.

There is no admission fee for spectators. And there will be food and beverages available! In addition to watching the highest level of racing domestically, be sure to check out all the fun things to do around Fayetteville from great food, historic sights and arts and crafts of all kinds. Complete details here: experiencefayetteville.com.

To register for FayetteCross, visit https://fayettecross.com/register/

Ship your bike to FayetteCross: https://www.bikeflights.com/events/FayetteCross

Read more about FayetteCross:  https://fayettecross.com/

We hope to see you there! 

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Sept 2022 Sit n Sew Recap

We kicked off on Saturday with Show & Tell - Pics are available on our socials - Insta and Facebook.

NO meeting - this month For those registered for the retreat watch out for a Messenger group chat from Julie Street-Smith with details and things to remember to bring eg:  extension cords and power boards.

For those members who couldn’t make it today we hope you found some time to sew and feed your creativity. Or at least enjoyed some festivities with the UCI Road world Championship - pinnacle road cycling event happening.

October is ramping up to be busy busy busy.  

Reminders:

2022 Retreat is locked and loaded.  If you want to come there is still time to jump on board please contact Karen Bulbert and Julie Street-Smith chop chop.

Important Dates:

15 Oct - WMQG Sit n sew

14-15 October 2022, Bulli Corner Quilters Quilt & Flower show - Northern Illawarra Uniting Church

21- 23 Oct - QuiltNSW Exhibition 2022 Grand Pavilion Rosehill Racecourse

21-22-23rd October - Gerringong Annual Quilt Show - Gerringong Town Hall

28 - 30 Oct WMQG Retreat 2022 - Numbers are firming up.  If you want to come please make your payments and reach out to Karen Bulbert or Julie Street-Smith (contact details are on the flyer

19 November Sit N Sew - Molli Sparkles

Thanks everyone have a great month hope you find some time to sew - See you at the Oct Sit n sew day, retreat or the QuiltNSW Exhibiton. Kath

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Know The Benefits Of Cycling |  2022 World Road Race Championship Wollongong

In case you are unaware of the benefits of cycling then learn the various pros that can help you love this amazing sport. 2022 world Road Race Championship in Wollongong are going to hosted by UCI in which various events like time trials, team time trials, cultural events, participation events, cycling events are going to be organized. Read this article to get more information.

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Ellen van Dijk of The Netherlands after the 95th UCI Road World Championships 2022 - Women Individual Time Trial a 34,2km individual time trial race from Wollongong to Wollongong on September 18, 2022 in Wollongong, Australia. (Photos by Con Chronis/Getty Images)