The UCI Gravel World Championships' may have fallen awkwardly this year, with them coinciding with the fifth and final Monument of the men's road cycling season in Il Lombardia, and taking place just before the final two rounds of the Life Time Grand Prix series - enough to force several US pros to skip the event in the Netherlands - but they didn't disappoint in entertainment, star names, or gravel tech.
Originally planned to take place in Nice, France, the fourth edition of the Gravel Worlds was moved to the Zuid-Limburg region of the Netherlands - Amstel Gold Race territory - earlier in the year due to time and technical constraints on the Côte d'Azur organisers.
