UCI World Cup revised for 2009

Julien Absalon (Orbea) is a familiar World Cup Winner

Julien Absalon (Orbea) is a familiar World Cup Winner (Image credit: FJ Hughes)

At the UCI Road World Championships last week in Varese, Italy, the UCI released the 2009 calendar of World Cups and Continental Championships. Missing from the list were two rounds of the downhill and one round of the cross country World Cups, but on Wednesday, those holes were filled.