Protest halts road race at world cycling event

A protestation has halted the Men's Elite Road Race astatine the UCI Cycling World Championships successful Scotland.

The lawsuit was paused with conscionable implicit 190km (118 miles) of the 271km (168 miles) remaining, with Edinburgh to Glasgow way blocked westbound of Falkirk.

The protestation took spot connected a constrictive agelong of the B818 adjacent the Carron Valley Reservoir.

Police Scotland said officers were successful attendance and engaging with protesters.

Environmental radical This Is Rigged claimed work for the demonstration, with 4 of its activists involved.

It has been reported that the protesters person glued themselves to the road.

Welsh cyclist Owain Doull and Ireland's Rory Townsend were portion of a nine-strong breakaway that had gone 7 minutes wide of the main peloton, and were the archetypal to beryllium stopped by officials arsenic the contention was halted.

The contention is owed to extremity with 10 laps of a Glasgow metropolis centre circuit.

Roads successful Glasgow are closed arsenic good arsenic on the way from Edinburgh connected a rolling basis.

Road cycling commentator Phil Liggett earlier told the BBC's Drivetime programme the lawsuit was the "pinnacle of the satellite of cycling".

"The Tour De France is for the multi-day cyclist and the satellite title is for the one-day expert," helium said. "They are the 2 highest rewards successful the satellite of cycling."

The contention started astatine 09.30 adjacent the Scottish Parliament earlier heading done Edinburgh metropolis centre towards the Queensferry Crossing.

It goes done southbound Fife and crossed the Clackmannan Bridge into the Falkirk area.

The cyclists past headed westbound towards the Carron Valley and implicit Crow Road into East Dunbartonshire earlier descending done Glasgow's westbound extremity into the metropolis centre.

Riders volition implicit 10 laps of a 14.3km (8.9 mile) Glasgow City Circuit earlier finishing successful George Square.

Road closures are successful spot arsenic the contention passes on the route.

The M90 was closed astatine the M9 J1A gaffe astatine astir 08:45 with the M90 J1A astatine Queensferry closed astir an hr aboriginal to support riders and let the contention to walk safely crossed the bridge.

The A90 Northbound from the Barnton Junction is closed from astir 09:30 until cyclists are implicit the Queensferry Crossing.

Other closures see the M876/A876 entree to Clackmannanshire and Kincardine Bridges from astir 09:45 to 11:00.

For the remainder of the race, a rolling roadworthy closure is successful cognition crossed the lawsuit route, with roads closed for astir 30-45 minutes.

Roads astir the Glasgow City Circuit are closed completely.

Reigning UCI satellite champion Remco Evenepoel is among the apical riders taking portion successful the race, on with chap Belgian Wout van Aert.

Two-time Tour de France victor Tadej Pogacar is besides competing.

British nationalist champion Fred Wright is besides having to contend with the two-time French victor Julian Alaphilippe and the Dutch Classics specializer Mathieu van der Poel.

The contention is portion of the UCI Cycling World Championships which sees the world's champion cyclists vie crossed a scope of disciplines being brought unneurotic for the archetypal clip successful 1 "mega event".

It volition spot enactment crossed the state - from upland biking successful the Tweed Valley to elite way cycling successful Glasgow's Sir Chris Hoy velodrome.

There volition besides beryllium clip trials astir Stirling and para-cycling roadworthy races successful Dumfries.

The Women's Elite Road Race connected Sunday 13 August follows a 154km (96 mile) way from Loch Lomond to Glasgow via the Stirling countryside. It ends with six laps of Glasgow metropolis centre.