The UCI World Championships 2021's penultimate race is the women's elite road race taking place in the Belgian region of Flanders on Saturday, September 25.
But for those wanting to pull on the rainbow bands the riders will have to complete to 144km over 2750 metres of ascending over five laps of the finishing circuit around the town of Leuven.
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