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Gold Event Series reaches halfway target inside first year claims UK Sport

  • London 2012

By Gary AndersonNovember 29 - With the confirmation that London's Olympic Aquatics Centre will stage the 2014 FINA/NVC Diving World Series, UK Sport has claimed that it has reached its halfway target of bringing 70 world-class events to the UK by 2019.

Manchester is also set to host the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) Grand Prix next month while the UCI BMX


Baku 2015 Sports

  • Baku Content

Cycling BMX and mountain bike will have their own purpose built Veloparks


Cycling Australia appoints Ryan as new President

  • Cycling

By Duncan MackayNovember 11 - Cycling Australia has appointed Gerry Ryan as its new President to succeed Klaus Mueller, who had announced in August that he was stepping down after four years, claiming the role had become too busy for him.

its Government funding unless improvements are made.These include demanding that Cycling Australia, BMX

We currently have Australian world champions in each of the road, track, mountain bike and BMX disciplines

World BMX champion Caroline Buchanan is one of Australian cycling's most marketable young stars which


Women's participation strategy on track, claims British Cycling

  • Cycling

By Emily GoddardOctober 17 - British Cycling's strategy to get one million women cycling by 2020 is "on track", according to the sport's national governing body, as it revealed today that 106,000 women have taken part in its programmes so far this year.

Britain's three-time BMX world champion Shanaze Reade was also pleased with the results of the programme


British Cycling membership reaches 80,000 in "bumper year" for governing body

  • Cycling

By Gary AndersonOctober 7 - British Cycling has claimed that its membership has reached 80,000 for the first time in what has been described as "another bumper year" for the organisation.

League of Racing Cyclists.As well as elite success on the track and road, along with world champions in BMX



London 2012 champions Trott and Colbourne unveiled as VeloPark ambassadors

  • Cycling

By James CrookAugust 29 - Double Olympic gold medallist Laura Trott and Paralympic champion Mark Colbourne returned to the scene of their success at last summer's Games as they were unveiled as ambassadors for London 2012 legacy venue Lee Valley VeloPark, which will open to the public next year.

officially re-opens its doors next March, boasting a remodelled and floodlit version of the London 2012 BMX

VeloPark is a premier cycling venue and from 4 March 2014, the public will be able to try track cycling, BMX


London 2012 cycling centre set to open next March

  • London 2012

advantage of "the world's best cycling venue" from March next year when the home of the Velodrome and BMX

hosted Britain's record-breaking medal haul at the Games, and a re-vamped and floodlit version of the BMX

unveil the ambitious programme for Lee Valley VeloPark.A re-vamped floodlit version of the Olympic BMX

Schools sessions on the BMX, mountain and road courses and the velodrome will start from £4 ($6.20/€4.70

) per pupil, whilst club riders will be able to use the road track from £2 ($3.10/€2.30), the BMX and

£3.30 ($5.15/€3.90 and the velodrome from £4.Childrens and concessions will be charged from £4 for the BMX


Record number of youngsters riding bikes, claims British Cycling

  • Cycling

By Nick ButlerAugust 6 - Success by the likes of Sir Bradley Wiggins, Chris Froome and Laura Trott have inspired record numbers of youngsters to get on their bikes in the past year, according to figures announced today by British Cycling.

That's everything from mountain biking and BMX, to the track events the world watched in the London Velodrome


Exclusive: McQuaid confident of new cycling disciplines at Olympics despite Rio 2016 setback

  • Cycling

By Emily GoddardJuly 15 - Pat McQuaid, President of the International Cycling Union (UCI), has claimed he remains confident new disciplines from his sport will be added to the Olympic programme in the "near future" despite the recent decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to add any for Rio 2016.

Last week the IOC Executive Board took the controversial decision not to include a points race, and BMX

We are proposing the addition of mountain bike eliminator, the points race on the track BMX freestyle

X-Games discipline BMX freestyle is a form of stunt riding that can trace its history back to 1975 when


IOC ruling emerges as new battleground in cycling's power struggle

  • Cycling

By Emily GoddardJuly 15 - Last week's decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to add any new disciplines to the programme for Rio 2016 has emerged as the latest battleground in the tetchy duel for the Presidency of the International Cycling Union (UCI).

seeking a third term as President, admitted that the IOC decision not to include a points race, and BMX

We are proposing the addition of mountain bike eliminator, the points race on the track BMX freestyle

X-Games discipline BMX freestyle (pictured top) is a form of stunt riding that can trace its history


3x3 basketball to miss out on Rio 2016 after IOC rule no new disciplines will be added

  • Rio 2016

By Duncan MackayJuly 9 - A decision by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) not to add any new disciplines to the programme for Rio 2016 has left several sports disappointed, including basketball who had been lobbying hard for 3x3 to be included.

add new disciplines to Rio 2016 included cycling, who had wanted to include a points race and BMX


Canada marks two-year countdown to Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games

  • Toronto 2015

By Gary AndersonJuly 8 - Some of Canada's top Olympic and Paralympic athletes will join people from ten communities across the southern Ontario region  on Wednesday (July 10) to mark the official two-year countdown to the start of the 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games in Toronto.

Experience, will be officially presented and displayed for the first time.In the host city Toronto, BMX


Manchester to host opening 2014 BMX Supercross World Cup event as Berlin joins circuit

  • Cycling

Duncan MackayJune 21 - Manchester will host the opening round of the International Cycling Union (UCI) BMX

Cup, where British riders Shanaze Reade and Liam Phillips were victorious earlier this year.The UCI BMX

Supercross World Cup is due to take place from 18 to 19 April, 2014, at the National Cycling Centre's BMX

I'm delighted that the BMX Supercross World Cup is coming to Manchester for the second year in a row,

The 2014 UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Manchester is part of UK Sport's £27 million ($42 million/€32

spot for action sports of all kinds, which has recently hosted a string of successful high-profile BMX


Medellin and Cairns chosen to host UCI World Championships

  • Cycling

significant boost after the city was today chosen to stage the 2016 International Cycling Union (UCI) BMX

the 'City of the Eternal Spring' in the Andes Mountains, will be our host city in 2016 for the UCI BMX

also the home city of Mariana Pajón (pictured top), who won the Olympic gold medal in the women's BMX