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  • Power Analysis: How Brandon McNulty Won Worlds

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2296910375-scaled.jpg”] Published September 28, 2026 02:12PM When I wrote a preview article that named Brandon McNulty as one of the favorites for the UCI Road World Championships in Montreal, I didn’t think it was actually possible. Of course, McNulty was a previous winner of the GP Montreal, as well as a rider in…

  • McNulty’s Rainbow Jersey Was No Miracle—It Was a Decade in the Making for USA Cycling

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2297437002-1-scaled-e1790553463168.jpg”] Updated September 28, 2026 01:06PM When Brandon McNulty rolled across the line to win the 2026 UCI Road World Championships, it marked the end of a journey. Over the past decade, the United States men’s riders have been building momentum. It started slowly at first, with promising results like McNulty winning bronze…

  • Did Isaac Del Toro Work For Brandon McNulty? Losing Rivals Call out UAE Team ‘Alliances’ at Road Worlds

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2297380125.jpg”] Updated September 28, 2026 08:39AM Tom Pidcock and Michael Matthews were left questioning if Brandon McNulty’s “miracle” ride to victory at the Montréal road worlds was such a marvel, after all. Speaking at the finish Sunday, Pidcock and Matthews both implied the American benefited from a cross-border alliance with his UAE Emirates-XRG…

  • 9 Reasons the Montréal Road Worlds Will Be Remembered as One of the Best Ever

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2296937826-2.jpg”] Updated September 28, 2026 03:14PM The 2026 UCI Road World Championships were a week of second chances and never-give-up dogged determination. And delivered perhaps one of the best road world championships we’ll ever see. Riders got dropped and clawed their way back. Moves that looked decisive unraveled. Favorites cracked, recovered, cracked again,…

  • ‘Maybe Tadej Will Ride for Me’: World Champion McNulty Can Only Joke about Getting Pulls From Pogačar in 2027

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/mcnulty-pogacar.jpg”] Updated September 28, 2026 03:54AM Brandon McNulty ensured the rainbow jersey stays at UAE Emirates-XRG another year with his sensational world title victory Sunday, but he’s under no illusions about who the boss will be in 2027. Tadej Pogačar, the UAE rider who wore the stripes the two years before him. Speaking…

  • ‘I Thought My Career Was Done’: Michael Matthews Earns Surprise Silver Medal at Worlds After Major Setbacks

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2296906208.jpg”] Updated September 28, 2026 01:18AM Few people had Brandon McNulty picked to win the world championship in Montréal. Fewer still had Michael Matthews anywhere near the podium. Yet on Sunday the veteran Australian rider, who turned 36 the day before, finished on the second podium spot, standing above a former world champion,…

  • UCI Hits Eritrea with Hefty Fines for Racing Worlds in Non-Matching Kits

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2297379705.jpg”] Published September 27, 2026 09:56PM The UCI hit two Eritrean riders and the team’s director with hefty fines on Sunday after the elite men’s world championship road race. Their transgression? Not littering, riding in a dangerous manner, or resting their arms on their handlebars in an illegal position as Demi Vollering was…

  • Dream Denied: Why the Top Favorites Missed Out to McNulty at Worlds

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2297421209.jpg”] Published September 27, 2026 05:45PM It’s a case of what went wrong for the top pre-race favorites, with Paul Seixas, Wout Van Aert, Remco Evenepoel and Tom Pidcock all wondering what they could have done differently to overcome a tactically-perfect USA team in the elite men’s world championship road race. Brandon McNulty…

  • Brandon McNulty Stuns the Favorites in Montréal Worlds Thriller

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2297434798.jpg”] Updated September 27, 2026 02:43PM Brandon McNulty became the first US road race champion in more than three decades when he soloed to a brilliant victory in the elite road race championship in Montreal on Sunday. The American rider attacked an elite lead group with 32.4k remaining and went into time trial…

  • Brandon McNulty Ends 33-Year US Wait for Men’s Road World Title With Epic Solo Raid

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://velo-cdn.outsideonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/GettyImages-2297433871.jpg”] Updated September 27, 2026 02:40PM Brandon McNulty roared to America’s first rainbow jersey in 33 years with a daring solo attack to win the UCI Road World Championship Sunday. The 28-year-old hold off a late chase in Montréal to join Greg LeMond and Lance Armstrong in a select club of U.S. cycling…