Just over a year after the Glasgow Super Worlds, the UCI Road World Championships are back with a more traditional format! Kicking off this Sunday in Zurich, Switzerland, the event will span 8 days, featuring 11 races, including road races and time trials for Elite riders, juniors, and MALE U23s. For the first time, the Para World Championships will also run concurrently with the event.
In this Preview Show, Dan will break down the courses – which aren’t as challenging as anticipated -and take a closer look at the top favourites for the Elite races.
00:00 Who Will Win The 2024 UCI World Championships?
01:14 Men Elite Road Race 2024 Route
02:44 Women’s Road Race 2024 Route
03:59 Who are the favourites?
04:04 Tadej Pogačar
05:08 Remco Evenepoel
06:26 Primož Roglič
07:28 Mathieu van der Poel
08:19 Australia 2024 UCI Road World Championships
08:28 Great Britain 2024 UCI Road World Championships
09:09 Switzerland 2024 UCI Road World Championships
09:48 USA UCI Road World Championships
10:25 Denmark UCI Road World Championships
11:11 France UCI World Champs 2024
11:58 Italy and Spain UCI World Champs 2024
12:48 Ireland, Canada, Portugal, Colombia and other countries
13:35 Dan’s predictions UCI Road World Championships
13:58 Lotte Kopecky – Elite Women
15:04 Demi Vollering
15:21 Elisa Longo Borghini
15:40 Kasia Niewiadoma and the others
17:38 Men’s Time Trials UCI World Championships 2024
20:39 UCI Road World Championships—Women’s Time Trial
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39 Comments
Who do you think will take home the Elite World Championship title this year?
Play the numbers game with Roglic — something like Pog and Adam winning 2 & 3 in TDF 2023. This time Pog 1 Roglic 2. Remco–the most stylish among them–#3.
I’m a local and the route is really hard, because after the KOM there are 3 really steep kickers with a lot of up and down and narrow roads. I don’t envy the guys having to do 7 laps…
Hope my Eritrean cycling 🚴♀️ team shines in this world cycling championship 🇪🇷👏👏👏🌹🚴🚴🚴♀️🚴♀️🚴♀️
There are rumours that Van der Poel has sacrified 5 kg of what probably was mostly muscles. Significantly less power in order to get better power to weight ratio. This sacrify might be to big to win.
Laporte and Barguil haven't been selected on the French team for the World Championships.
Oi oi Toms Skujiņš is from Latvia, not Lithuania
that would be quite a podium a year on after VDP, WOUT, POG quite a generation!
Roglic won't work for anyone but Roglic. He shouldn't even be selected for the team if he's not prepared to take team orders.
maybe there was some deal struck – Primoz for the Olympics, Tadej for the worlds
I dont give a monkeys about Slovenia
Morissette Mountain
Slovenia should decide team tactics by Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock roulette
I had the pleasure of seeing Pogačar race in Montréal. I would be surprised if he does not win on the Men’s side. He really is special. The only thing I will say is that in Montréal his UAE teammates really turned themselves inside out to support him. Split support in Slovenian squad may be different? I think the Women’s race goes to Vollering…if only because she must be motivated in the moment, after the accident and team tactics cost her the Tour de France by mere seconds. I too would love Derek Gee to get a result. I had a lovely talk with his mom and brother before the Montréal race. Great people. Go 🇨🇦 Go!
Elyse Hollow
All in for Pog
Suddenly everybody became a Slovenia fanboy 😂😂😂
I am obviously biased but not mentioning Vacek among 17 (hope I counted correctly) men TT favourites is definitely a mistake 🙂
I’d love to see MVP win it again or indeed Pidcock but suspect Tadej will take the rainbow jersey. Looking forward to watching it.
Mads Petersen from Denmark if it is cold and rainy weather.
Pogi!!!!
Harris George Robinson Eric Harris Matthew
Balsamo FTW
Dead Dan,
Lithuania and Latvia are 2 different countries, Toms is from Latvia, not Lithuania. 🙂
i hope binyam germay will win
Lithuania 🤣
Anna Henderson. C'mon Anna!!
If Tadej is in form, Roglic should full domestique when the group is small enough for Pogacar to launch. This duo is impossible to stop if they work togheter
Im going with MVDP
After watching the TT, I think the race will between Remco and Pog. It looks like Roglic is fading after the Vuelta. I think there is too much climbing for MVDP and Mads.
Nice preview! Skujins is from Latvia though.
Pogi!!!!!!!
Picking tarling over ganna😂
Robinson Michelle Hall Edward Jones Jennifer
Jackson Sarah Garcia Jose Lee Thomas
Rooting for Remco 🖤💛♥️ Although I know Pogi is an absolute beast that I love as well 🤍💙♥️
Jones Frank Moore Jeffrey Hernandez Elizabeth
How did Eritrea get 6 riders?
Pogacar wins this one