Cycling 16 February 1949

Demands for better Worlds courses and an end to doping

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In his article entitled ‘Wanted! A World Road Championships Worthy of the Name,’ British-born French cycling journalist Victor Breyer did not hold back. The point of the article was to call for better courses for the professional World Championships and a better calendar of races in the build-up.

His claim was that without it, you ended up with unworthy champions. “Among which all people purporting to know something about this line of sport will agree that [Karel] Kaers, [Éloi] Meulenberg, [Hans] Knecht and [Theo] Middelkamp never deserved to be crowned road champions.”