British Cycling has confirmed the routes for this year’s championships, with Ceredigion hosting for a second consecutive year between 25 and 28 June. A new time trial course at Lampeter is the principal change; the circuit and road races revisit the same Aberystwyth roads used in 2025 — a road race that, on closer inspection, is harder than the headline figures suggest.
British Cycling’s ‘Two Years On’ update on the Elite Road Task Force points to new tools, new jerseys and a long-term competition overhaul – but the deeper problems it was created to solve, from commercial fragility to visibility, remain stubbornly unresolved as Jon Dutton prepares to depart this summer.
British Cycling has confirmed its squad for the 2026 Cyclo-cross World Championships in Hulst, led by Cam Mason and Zoe Backstedt, but the continued omission of the reigning elite and under-23 women’s national champions — and a forceful response from Spectra Racing — again brings questions of selection criteria and progression in British women’s cyclo-cross into focus.
Form, rivalry and winter resilience set the scene for a decisive weekend in South Shields at the 2026 Lloyds National Cyclo-cross Championships (10-11 January)