road bicycle racing

bicycle racing sport

Key facts

Highest governing body: UCI
Contact: No, although bodies do touch
Team members: Individuals and teams
Mixed sex: Yes, separate competitions
Type: Cycle sport
Equipment: Road bicycle
Venue: Paved roads
Country or region: Worldwide
Olympic: Yes, men's since the 1896 Olympics and women's since the 1984 Olympics
World championships: Yes
Paralympic: Yes, men's and women's since the 1984 Paralympics

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Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual riders or teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively.