Interesting news has emerged from Japan regarding an event scheduled for nearly a decade away: the fourth Super World Championship in cycling, which will take place in nine years' time. After Glasgow 2023, Haute-Savoie 2027, and Trentino 2031, the next edition of the "all-inclusive" world championship format held every four years could indeed be held in the Land of the Rising Sun!

The revelation comes from two top figures in the Japanese Cycling Federation: vice president Koichi Nakano and executive director Kunihiko Kaji. On Sunday, August 30th, while Niseko (see photo) was hosting, for the first time in Asia, the Gran Fondo World Championships, Nakano and Kaji explained to the historic newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun that they're working to bid for Japan as the host country for the 2035 Super Worlds.

The only Japanese road World Championships so far were held in 1990 in Utsunomiya. Should this new project and the related bid to the UCI come to fruition, it would represent a return in grand style: not only a multidisciplinary championship, but for the first time a "multi-city" championship. The idea would indeed be to not concentrate the events in a single city or region, but rather to spread them throughout the country.

A decidedly compelling prospect from a nation with a great track cycling tradition (the keirin discipline originates from there) that is increasingly making its mark on the international cycling scene. Investments such as last week's Gran Fondo World Championships and potentially the 2035 Super Worlds, as well as the growth of the Ukyo team in the Continental category, are there to prove it.