CHASING RAINBOWS
eing crowned a UCI World Champion and pulling on the rainbow jersey… It’s happened in all our dreams but in reality it’s only been professionals in the running. That changed in 2011 when the UCI helped launch the World Cycling Tour, later rebranded the UCI Gran Fondo World Series. This 30-event extravaganza closes with a season-ending World Championship (in Vancouver for 2020), featuring the top 20 perent of riders in age and gender categories from each qualifier event. For me that had been at the Tour of Cambridgeshire gran fondo earlier in the year, where I’d squeaked through to the finals in Perth, Australia on account of a lack of take-up from the people who'd qualified, legitimately ahead of me. Something of a lucky loser, my fate had
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