London Olympics will be held in men and women of all five games cycling, respectively sprint, team sprint, Keirin, new number of all-around competition and team pursuit race.
All-round game is a game consisting of 5 different multi-project event. Individual pursuit race was canceled, some of the decision of cyclists and cycling fans are very angry, but McQuaid said the UCI Track Cycling move will be conducive to the development of race as a whole better.
"I've seen many of the requirements to retain certain items to the petition or protest, but these countries have to submit or simply considering how to retain their good projects. The UCI will have to look at the overall situation, and focus on the global cycling movement in the future development, "Mr McQuaid told Reuters. "We want to strive to achieve gender equality, the same time we hope to add more events, but the IOC does not allow blindly adding items, so we can only make a difficult choice, the movement of the track cycling events to make adjustments . I also hope the individual pursuit, points race and Madison are able to match Olympic Games selection, but it is impossible to achieve. We have added a number of projects all-around game, because if you do not, of all cycling venue Item will only perpetuate the 3 or 4 days of competition. but also has all-around tournament schedule will be extended to 6 days, compared with even one more day of the 2008 Olympic Games. "
McQuaid said that some people in order to quell the discontent of the policy adjustment, UCI may now constitute the all-around game of the five projects (200-meter road race starting, 5 km sprint, 3 km individual pursuit race, 15 km Points race and the 1 km time trial) to be re-examined to make them more emphasis on endurance athletes.
McQuaid also said: "All along, the track cycling race is more emphasis on the sprint athletes, but this time we will carefully study the adjustment strategy of all-round game to make them more inclined to endurance. In this case, all the cycling events will be there are three kinds of suitable sprint athletes, suitable for two kinds of endurance athletes. "
