The Danish Biking Union has introduced that it’ll not take any junior or under-23 riders to the 2025 UCI Street World Championships in Rwanda.
In a press release launched on Tuesday, the federation cited “monetary issues” and “the particular preparations required” to compete at excessive altitude in Kigali.
The subsequent Worlds, operating from September 21-28, would be the first held in Africa and at an altitude between 1,500 and 1,700 metres above sea stage. The price and sources essential to compete with a full crew on the occasion wouldn’t be potential, the federation acknowledged.
“The Danish Biking Union has made the tough choice that the Danish U19 and U23 nationwide groups is not going to take part within the 2025 Street Biking World Championships in Rwanda,” the assertion learn.
“The choice was made based mostly on monetary issues and the particular preparations required to compete at altitudes between 1,500 and 1,700 metres… which requires particular preparations, which can, after all, additionally value each extra cash and sources.
“Due to this fact, it has been determined that the Danish Biking Union will solely area groups within the males’s and girls’s elite races.”
Based on the federation, it marks the primary time that Denmark might be with no U23 crew on the Worlds. In 2022 they opted to move to Australia with out the junior squads.
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The nation will as a substitute ship a full lineup of riders – elite, U23 and junior for a complete of round 35 – to the UEC European Championships in France, which runs from October 1-5.
Denmark’s elite supervisor Morten Bennekou mentioned the federation is “very unhappy” to should make that call however acknowledged that it’s a “accountable monetary choice”.
“From a purely sporting perspective, we’re after all very unhappy that now we have needed to decide to not take part in both the U19 or U23 World Championships for each women and men in 2025,” he mentioned.
“Nevertheless, the journey to and keep in Rwanda could be very pricey, and every particular person rider group and the additional employees, and many others. {that a} rider group triggers, make it so costly that now we have needed to make a accountable monetary choice in a 12 months the place the elite funds will already should be lower in comparison with 2024.
“Nevertheless, I wish to emphasize that our choice for 2025 doesn’t essentially create a precedent in relation to the approaching years, the place the World Street Championships may also in a number of instances be held abroad,” he concluded, referring to the approaching Worlds in Montréal, Haute-Savoie and Abu Dhabi, earlier than they return dwelling to Copenhagen in 2029.
