"It is not good for African cycling that such a course has been laid out" - Biniam Girmay to skip Rwanda World Championships?

There is nothing wrong in what you or others have said but there are slsonotger factors and actors to consider and we have to first take a step back from our preconceived lens for permanently looking at things. Firstly, we always tend to speak of Africa a bit loosely as some rather uniform place (kind of competing together against other regions). Africa is probably genetically, culturally and mentally more diverse than Europe including Russia or the Middle East including Israel, Palestine, SA, Iran, Qatar, Yemen etc. You only have to remember sone of the wars, religions, tribes and settlers plus the thoughtless colonial border definitions imposed on tribal lands to remember how complex things can get. Asking Rwanda to consider a course for Biniam is like asking Russia or Norway to create one for Alaphilippe, Valter or Almeida. It is Rwandas WC not Africa’s, Rwanda will obviously try to use it for their benefit more than for helping other African nations progress in cycling in future. They invested a ton in reaching this opportunity over a long period, it was not done for then getting tokd what others would prefer them to do. Other than that, sorry, it is a very mountainous place, it wound actually not be so easy to create another type of course, if Denmark or the Netherlands were hosts, would anyone be asking them to make a course more suitable to climbers? Rwanda 2025 was in the works long before anyone could have guessed Biniam would attain the level he has, should they have taken the WC away from them due to that change in situation? It’s just unfortunate for him and some but cycling is like that and sometimes some cyclists show themselves as a bit spoilt. Every year 90% of riders participate knowing they have practically zero chance. Imagine if they’d all decide it wasn’t worth participating, in fact, in how many other major sports events (WC, Olympics, Commonwealth etc. do those with less chance stay away? Most would sacrifice a whole load to participate and are pretty down when they don’t qualify because for many the chance just to participate still means something. Anyway, let them stay home, it will just leaves more space for new faces to discover and new talent to prove itself which is just as important.