Sunday, September 21 will be a day indelibly written into cycling's history books, as the day the sport's World Championships opened its doors to Rwanda as hosts, and Africa finally took centre stage, 104 years after Copenhagen hosted the inaugural edition.
Cycling's headline international event, which has predominantly been held in Europe but also ventured out to South America, North America and Asia since 1921, reached Africa for the first time for the elite men's and women's individual time trials, where some of the world's best came straight to the fore.
