Only Good Stickers: Panini UCI World Championship 2021

The UCI Cycling World Championship celebrated the 100 years anniversary with the 2021 edition in Leuven (Belgium). For this occasion, Panini released the first ever album for this competition. The collection was available only in Belgium, a land of cycling and stickers. The album is structured to show one after the others all the world champions (men and women) from the first edition in 2021 to the last in 2020. For each winner there is a sticker with the flag of the country, the number of victories and the date of birth. On the album there is also a brief paragraph describing career and anecdotes of each rider. For the greatest winners (two or more times) there are two stickers composing a larger photo.

The album includes some of the major cyclists of all time: Eddy Merckx, Felice Gimondi, Fausto Coppi, Jeannie Longo, Lance Armstrong, and the most recent Peter Sagan and Julien Alaphilippe. In the last part of the album there are three more sections. "Vélo" describes the bike evolution since its invention with six stickers on two pages. "Parcours" goes over the 2021 edition in Leuven with 11 stickers of places, maps, and roads. The last section focuses on the UCI World Cycling Centre, a project to stimulate the development in cycling all over the world.

It is a compact, but effective collection, a sort of encyclopedia of the Cycling World Championships. With the small number of stickers (a total of 155) it possible to complete it pretty fast. Moreover, there is a hardcover edition that makes it more attractive.