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Matilda Price

Kigali road races prove that tactics don't win World Championships, being bold does – Analysis

A composite image of Tadej Pogačar and Magdeleine Vallieres, the winners of the men's and women's elite road races at the UCI Road World Championships 2025.

Tadej Pogačar and Magdeleine Vallieres. Two totally different riders, at two totally different levels, in two totally different races. But on Sunday night, they are not totally different, as they are both the new elite road race world champions, and their successes have more in common than you might think.

On Saturday, Canada's Vallieres came from almost nowhere to surprise the peloton – and the world – with her victory from a late breakaway, truly an outsider underdog turned world champion.

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