{"id":169818,"date":"2025-09-30T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169818\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T06:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T06:42:07","slug":"derby-to-host-cycling-world-championship-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/169818\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby to host cycling world championship event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Derby has been announced as the host city of the 2026 UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The city council said the event &#8211; which involved artistic cycling and cycle-ball &#8211; would take place from 16 to 18 October 2026 at Derby Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artistic cycling has been described as gymnastics on a bike, while cycle-ball is a two-a-side team sport likened to football on a bike.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Ndukwe Onuoha said the Labour-run authority was &#8220;delighted&#8221; the event was coming to the city and added it would bring benefits for local businesses as well as tourism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derby has been announced as the host city of the 2026 UCI Indoor Cycling World Championships. The city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-169818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}