USA Cycling has said it is ‘committed to diversifying American bike racing and we want to see these Black athletes succeed.’ And yet, in September 2025, they sent no Black riders to the Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda – the first time the competition, which has been running since 1921, has been held in Africa.
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France is the most visited country in the world, with over 100 million tourists a year. To welcome the merry hordes, property owners have converted vast amounts of housing into holiday rentals. There are more than 800,000 such listings in France; Paris alone has 60,000. Finding a place to rent to live in is a lot harder. Last year, France passed an ‘anti-Airbnb law’ that cuts tax breaks for holiday rentals and gives more powers to local authorities to regulate short-term lets and put quotas on tourist accommodation.
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