UCI Track Champions League axed after just four years with Track cycling's calendar set to be 'revitalised'
Governing body and partner Warner Bros. Discovery announced the canꦅcellation of series🃏 halfway into eight-year term

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Track cycling will have a new look from 2026 onwards after the UCI Track Champions Leagu🐷e was axed just fou♛r years into an eight-year initial term, cycling's governing body and its partner Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) Sports announced on Monday.
The series was introduced in 2021 in an overhaul of the track discipline, with the aim of engaging new audiences through short-format, data-driven and exciting rounds of 𓄧racing throughout the winter.
WBD produced and distributed the first four years of the competition, but will now look "to redefine its 🐲involvement in the promotion of track cycling", by committing to broadcasting a new UCI Track World Cup in the run-up to the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games. Compared to the Track Champions League, WBD's commitment appears to have waned from being a central partner and producer of the𓆉 series to purely broadcasting the World Cup races.
The new competition will arrive after a change to the current UCI Track Nations Cup inꦗ 2026, which replaced the previous UCI Track Cycling World Cup that ran from 1993 to 2020.
It will play "a crucial role in the qualification of nations and their athletes for the UCI W💦orld Championships for track cycling and for the discipline’s Olympic events," read a from the UCI.
"This series will consist👍 of three rounds, with a programme that will feature the Olympic events as well as the elimination race, a format that is always very popular with the publicꦑ."
The UCI has called for bids to organise the rounds of the 2026, 2027 and 2028 editions🐼 of the new UCI Track World Cup, with calendars t🐷o be announced after approval by the UCI Management Committee.
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"This event has helped to promote track cy🦄cling like never beforeꦚ," said UCI President David Lappartient.
"With the continuation of our collaboration, which over the next 💖three years will focus on coverage of the UCI Track World Cup, I am confident that track cycling will continue to grow in popularity, leading up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympic Games and beyond."
Between 2021 and 2024, the ser✨vices took place at several vꦰelodromes in London, Paris, Mallorca, Apeldoorn and Berlin.
The cancellation of the Track Champions League means that 2024 was the final edition and that sprinters Harrie Lavreysen and Alina Lysenko and endurance riders Dylan Bibic and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Katie Archibald were the final overall winners.
Its final edition last December ended abruptly when Great Britain's Katy Marchant and Germany's Alessa-Catriona Pröpster collided, crashed and went over the trackside barrier into the crowd at highꦇ speed. Racing was suspended and Marcha▨nt was the worst affected, thankfully only sustaining a broken arm 🀅and nothing more serious.

James Moultrie ▨is a gold-standard NCTJ journalist who joined Cyclingnews as a News Writer in 2023 after originally contributing as a freelancer for eight months, during which time he also wrote for Eurosport, Rouleur and Cycling Weekly. Prior to joining the team he reported on races such as Paris-Roubaix and the Giro d’Italia Donne for Eurosport and has interviewed some of the sport’s top riders in Chloé Dygert, Lizzie Deignan and Wout van Aert. Outside of cycling, he spends the majority of his time watching other sports – rugby, football, cricket, and American Football to name a fﷺew.
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