UCI announces gravel World Championships, new cyclocross format and 'the development of snow bike'

Gravel cycling has gained huge popularity in the last few years with the UCI hoping to harness that for new races

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The UCI have announced that they will be creating a World Series for gravel cycling in 2022, including a World Championship as the popularity of the discipline booms.

Cycling's governing body, UCI, decided in a meeting at the Road World Championships in Flanders, Belgium, that they would go into the world of gravel cycling in a joint organisation with Golazo, who organise many of the current events.

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