World Championships

20-year-old Beth Heiden punches the air as she crosses the line to win the 1980 Road World Championships in Sallanches, France.

This year's WorldTour season was like no other, with overlapping grand tours, a midsummer Strade Bianche and so much more. Could any of those changes be made permanent?

Houle feels that national body is failing to support road cycling as budget squeeze leads to focus elsewhere.

From Mads Pedersen's winning-streak after returning to his Trek-Segafredo jersey to Julian Alaphilippe's showboating sprint dramas, maybe 'the rainbow curse' is more than a myth.

French star plans to start season slightly off the boil to allow form to last a busy schedule set to run through the fall.

Promising Dane not bitter despite missing chance at wearing world champion's jersey in northern classics.

EF Pro Cycling's rising Colombian star feels his countrymen will be at advantage on return to racing, sees world championship opportunity for his nation.

EF Pro Cycling rider keeping options open for later in calendar, with Vuelta and classics both options.

A shift in world championships venue to Qatar may force Evenepoel to focus on the time trial rather than road race.

CCC riders to receive at least 50 percent of pay, venue for world championships to be confirmed by the end of May

Dutch rivals on season-opener Strade Bianche, the importance of a first-ever Paris-Roubaix, and the difficulties of a Giro-worlds clash.

Valverde biding his time ahead of stacked season to include Tour, worlds, monuments and Vuelta.

The Giro d'Italia moves to October and overlaps with the cobbled classics and the first week of the 18-stage Vuelta a España. The UCI Women's WorldTour calendar sees the addition of ladies Paris-Roubaix.

Officials will make a decision by late June, and insist it's now or never to host them in the Swiss Alps.

The UCI has set Tuesday, May 5, for the publication of a new WorldTour calendar.

The Outer Line argues that the UCI's proposed 2020 calendar is simply too risky to be realistic.

The new 2020 pro cycling calendar is still dependent on a reduction of the COVID-19 virus around the world.

Miller had been working with TrainingPeaks for the past two years. Prior to this engagement, he had been part of USA Cycling for 17 years.

Phinney's talents on the bike were matched by his ability to express himself off it. We trace the key threads that ran through his career, as he told them to us.

In the wake of Mads Pedersen’s surprise victory in the men’s world road championships last Sunday, we look at five other unexpected winners of the rainbow jersey and trace where their careers went after their triumphs.

"I’m no good at strategy. I can just do what I did," says new rainbow jersey Peter Sagan

The TTT is the only event at the world championships where men and women don't have equal pay. But don't blame the UCI.

SLIDESHOW: American Aaron Gwin barely missed a spot on the elite men's downhill podium when he clocked the fourth fastest time on Sunday. Neko Mulally misses junior gold by fractions of a second.

SLIDESHOW: For mountain biking — or world championship mountain biking to be exact — 20 years is just old enough to afford a nostalgic look back and see what a long ride it's been. Legendary mountain biking photog Tom Moran gets the goods at Mont Saint Anne.

SLIDESHOW: Spain's Jose Antonio Hermida — who crashed at least once, with pre-race favorite Julien Absalon on lap 1, and was as far back as 10th at one point — powered to an impressive win, handily holding off a late challenge from the Czech Republic's Jaroslav Kulhavy and South Africa's Burry Stander.

SLIDESHOW: Poland's Maja Wloszczowska won the women's world cross-country championships Saturday, riding away from Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel and Irena Kalentieva on a foggy, cool morning at Mount St. Anne, Quebec.

Nino Schurter not only beat Julien Absalon at the line in the 2010 World Cup cross-country opener, he topped the Frenchman one more time by winning the World Cup overall title, which Absalon had won the last four years. And what about last year's MTB worlds?

VIDEO: The 20th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships at Mont Sainte Anne, Canada, started Wednesday with the team relay. Switzerland wins gold; U.S. finishes in ninth.

Riders like Julien Absalon, Nino Schurter, Willow Koerber, Catharine Pendrel, Greg Minnaar, Gee Atherton, Steve Peat, Sabrina Jonnier, Anneke Beerten and Jared Graves will be vying for rainbow jerseys in their various disciplines at Mont Saint Anne Sept. 1-5.

With the final stop of the 2010 World Cup mountain bike season at Windham Mountain in Upstate New York on Aug. 28 and 29, hitting the UCI MTB World Championships at Mont-Sainte-Anne just a few days later is a no-brainer.

Reading Judy Freeman's new Singletrack.com column won't be anywhere near as painful than when she tweaked her hand in Australia as part of the USA Cycling team during the 2009 MTB World Championships. Read Freeman's "Life as a Bike Jockey" to learn how she is getting a grip on things.

Kathy Pruitt gave the United States its fourth and final medal at the 2009 Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia.

Russia's Irina Kalentieva earns the rainbow jersey in Australia after passing the race leader in the final 4k of cross-country race. The USA's Willow Koerber takes third, Heather Irmiger 10th and Canada's Catharine Pendrel sixth. Complete Results

Nino Schurter and Swiss teammate Florian Vogel work together to keep Julien Absalon in second place at the mountain bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia. Canada's Geoff Kabush and the USA's Todd Wells finish in top 10. Complete Results

In the first Mountain Bike World Championship event since the Beijing Olympics, American XC athletes will square off against rivals from across the globe in the only Olympic discipline of off-road cycling.