When David Lappartient was first elected as UCI President in 2017, he vowed to bring the Road World Championships to Africa for the first time. Eight years later, it's happening. The 2025 Worlds in Kigali, Rwanda, has been hailed as a breakthrough moment for the globalisation of the sport and a catalyst for the development of African cycling.
Lappartient said that witnessing an African Worlds was his "dream", and the UCI has invested heavily in the development of cycling on the continent in recent years, hoping to see a stream of riders move up the sporting ladder, emulating the likes of Biniam Girmay and Kim Le Court-Pienaar.
