{"id":55758,"date":"2025-09-26T15:43:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uci-president-david-lappartient-hints-at-more-major-cycling-events-for-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T14:30:21","slug":"uci-president-david-lappartient-hints-at-more-major-cycling-events-for-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uci-president-david-lappartient-hints-at-more-major-cycling-events-for-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"UCI President David Lappartient hints at more major cycling events for Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking at a press briefing on Friday, September 26, 2025, Lappartient praised the successful staging of the UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, the first time the event has been held in Africa.<\/p>\n

He said the event was \u201creally perfectly organised\u201d, adding that even officials who had doubts were convinced once they arrived: \u201cWhen they arrived here, they thought, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s really perfectly organised.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Lappartient also highlighted the hospitality and atmosphere in Kigali: \u201cIt\u2019s safe, it\u2019s beautiful, and the people are very friendly, happy to be here. A lot of smiles on their faces\u2026 I can feel also the African spirit, and that\u2019s something really nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

He noted that many of his colleagues had never been to Africa and came with different expectations: \u201cThey had the image of Africa that is not really at the level of Rwanda that we can witness today. They were really impressed by everything here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether Africa could host more major competitions, Lappartient affirmed, highlighting Rwanda as a potential host for the Mountain Bike World Championships.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I think it will be possible. I\u2019m sure that mountain biking can be organised one day. You have everything needed to host it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He stressed the importance of ensuring that cycling grows beyond Europe, saying the UCI is \u201calways very careful to really have the events worldwide, not only located in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looking ahead, he pointed to Rwanda\u2019s potential to host more regular races as a legacy of the 2025 championships: \u201cIt would be good that, as a kind of legacy of these championships, we can even have more races here in the country\u2026 You need to compete, and we will not be able to bring everybody to race in Europe. So we need to have races here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lappartient, who was recently re-elected to lead the UCI until 2029, also underlined the federation\u2019s global vision. After Kigali, the next cities set to host the UCI Road World Championships are Montreal, Canada (2026); the French Alps, France (2027); Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2028); Roskilde, Denmark (2029); Brussels, Belgium (2030); and Trentino, Italy (2031).<\/p>\n

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The President of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), David Lappartient, has said that Rwanda\u2019s strong organisational capacity could pave the way for the country to host more major cycling events, including the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000095185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000095185,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6d1a0588-39ab0.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6d1a0588-39ab0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6d1a0588-39ab0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6d1a0588-39ab0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6d1a0588-39ab0.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/6d1a0588-39ab0.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000095185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55758"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55758"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}