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The Guide RACE CALENDAR / SEPTEMBER 2020

1.WT: One-day UCI WorldTour race / 1.HC: Major one-day race / 1.1: Minor one-day race / 2.WT: UCI WorldTour stage race / 2.HC: Major stage race / 2.1: Minor stage race / WWT: Women's WorldTour race

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UCI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS 20-27 Sept | TBC | CM

It’s not often that you see the best cyclists in the world ride a one-day race on a route they’re not familiar with, with team-mates they’re not used to riding with and without radios, but that’s what happens at the World Championship road races. Riders compete in national teams for the rainbow bands. This unusual dynamic always creates intensity, and inevitably at the end Peter Sagan is there or thereabouts. With the pandemic messing up the racing calendar, there are still doubts over how or where the championships

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