The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) today announces that the new calendar for the 2020 Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup as well as the dates of the next UCI Mountain Bike World Championships presented by Mercedes-Benz, were approved by the UCI Management Committee, which met yesterday during an extraordinary meeting at the initiative of the UCI President David Lappartient in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. The calendars of UCI events for the other disciplines
10 May, 2020
COPACI CONGRATULATES THE MOTHERS ON THEIR DAY
On a day as special as today, despite the measures adopted by each of our states regarding social distancing, the Pan American Cycling Confederation wishes to send the most cordial displays of affection to all the mothers of our continent and especially the that accompany our cycling family. The president of COPACI, José Manuel Peláez Rodríguez wishes to give a great virtual hug to all the mothers who are part of COPACI such as: athletes,
On Monday, May 11th, USA Cycling is offering a special virtual ride with 2x Mountain Bike Olympian, Lea Davison, and Pan American Cyclocross Champion, Curtis White! It will be an easy ride with some fun Q&A’s moderated by Tim Johnson and Lauren Hall from the USA Cycling Foundation. If you are interested in supporting efforts like these by the USA Cycling Foundation, click here. Learn more about Leah: Lea’s parents threw the kids into every sport
5 May, 2020
The UCI unveils the revised 2020 calendars for the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) today announces the revised 2020 calendars for the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour, with a view to the resumption of the cycling season, halted due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic which has struck most of the world. Since the interruption of the cycling season in March, an intensive consultation process involving the principal representatives of the families of men’s and women’s professional road cycling – organisers, teams and riders
5 May, 2020
VIRTUAL CYCLING ENTER IN AMERICA
In recent years the popularity of exercise bikes and rollers for indoor training has increased. One of its advantages is the ease of training without leaving home and the low cost of investment in equipment. Indoor cycling gains fans even among those who like to practice cycling outdoors, as a complement to their training or on occasions when bad weather prevents riding the bike. Since the expansion of the Covid-19 pandemic, the continental cycling family
9 April, 2020
The UCI adopts a series of measures to confront the effects of the coronavirus on cycling and the Federation
In the current context of the coronavirus pandemic, the President of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) David Lappartient called an extraordinary meeting of the UCI Management Committee on 2 April. A series of economic measures were adopted at the meeting to confront the sporting and financial consequences of the world health crisis for the International Federation, in a situation marked by the postponement – or even cancellation – of all upcoming cycling competitions. Cycling at
2 April, 2020
The UCI prolongs the suspension of cycling events until 1 June 2020 and continues consultations
For the second time in two weeks, the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) brought together all representatives of professional road cycling’s families – AIOCC (organisers), AIGCP (teams) and CPA (riders) – on Wednesday 1 April to discuss the situation of professional road cycling linked to the coronavirus pandemic. Following the meeting, given the severity of the health situation throughout the world, the UCI and its stakeholders unanimously decided to prolong the suspension of cycling competitions until 1
THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE (IOC), THE INTERNATIONAL PARALYMPIC COMMITTEE (IPC), THE TOKYO 2020 ORGANISING COMMITTEE, THE TOKYO METROPOLITAN GOVERNMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN TODAY AGREED NEW DATES FOR THE GAMES OF THE XXXII OLYMPIAD, IN 2021. THE OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020 WILL BE CELEBRATED FROM 23 JULY TO 8 AUGUST 2021. THEY ALSO AGREED ON NEW DATES FOR THE PARALYMPIC GAMES, WHICH WILL BE CELEBRATED FROM 24 AUGUST UNTIL 5 SEPTEMBER 2021. The leaderships
In the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic (novel coronavirus), the organisers of numerous events on the UCI International Calendar are obliged to request the postponement or cancellation of their event. To give a clear vision of the impact the pandemic is having on the main UCI events (UCI World Championships and UCI World Cups) and events in the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour), the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has today published the lists
The Pan American Cycling Confederation (COPACI) and the Peruvian Cycling Sports Federation have agreed: • For reasons of the expansion and spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) in our continent and following the recommendations of the World Health Organization and taking into account the measures adopted by the majority of the governments of the region regarding closures of borders, limitation of movements, suspension of public shows that cause crowds of people. • We have decided to POSTPONE