Advertise With Us
About Us
Listen
Watch

Login

/

Subscribe

Home

News

Carnival

Business

Sports

E-Paper

Features

Opinion

Traffic Cameras

Life

Classifieds

Death Notices

Community

Real Estate

About Us

Contact Us

Home
News
Carnival
Sports
E-paper
Business
Classifieds
Other
Death Notices
Traffic Cameras
Covid-19
Features
Opinion
Games
Subscriptions
Real Estate

UCI Champions League extends Paul's season

by

#meta[ag-author]
Gyasi Merrique
20211005174142
20211005
T&T cyclist Nicholas Paul.

T&T cyclist Nicholas Paul.

T&T cy­clist Nicholas Paul faces a bumper end to the 2021 cal­en­dar year as he has qual­i­fied for the in­au­gur­al edi­tion of the Union Cy­cliste In­ter­na­tionale (UCI) Track Cham­pi­ons League, part of a wider re­form of the UCI's track cy­cling cal­en­dar of events.

Tak­ing place over the course of five Sat­ur­days from the be­gin­ning of No­vem­ber in­to ear­ly De­cem­ber, with stops in four Eu­ro­pean cities, the UCI Track Cham­pi­ons League will im­me­di­ate­ly fol­low the 2021 UCI Track Cy­cling World Cham­pi­onships in Roubaix France from Oc­to­ber 20-24. The lat­ter has been shift­ed from its pre­vi­ous spot of be­tween Feb­ru­ary and April in the UCI cal­en­dar al­so as part of the new UCI cal­en­dar.

Paul, the num­ber one ranked sprint rid­er in the world ac­cord­ing to the UCI's rank­ings as at Sep­tem­ber 14 and a world record-hold­er in the men's Fly­ing 200m, leads the list of cy­clists who have earned an au­to­mat­ic spot at the UCI Track Cham­pi­ons League by virtue of their world rank­ing.

Oth­er rid­ers will qual­i­fy to the Cham­pi­ons League through their per­for­mance at the World Cham­pi­onships, while more will be cho­sen from each host coun­try and in­vit­ed to par­tic­i­pate.

Af­ter con­clud­ing his World Cham­pi­onships cam­paign in France, Paul is ex­pect­ed to put his wheel on the line for the first leg of the Cham­pi­ons League in Mal­lor­ca, Spain on No­vem­ber 6. The event then moves to Pan­evezys, Lithua­nia on No­vem­ber 27, two events in Lon­don on De­cem­ber 3 and 4 and then the fi­nal event in Tel Aviv, Is­rael on De­cem­ber 11.

Ac­cord­ing to an ar­ti­cle ap­pear­ing on the event's of­fi­cial web­site, uci­trackcham­pi­onsleague.com, one stop sched­uled to take place in Paris, France on No­vem­ber 20 had to be post­poned.

The ar­ti­cle stat­ed, "Saint-Quentin-en-Yve­lines will now join the UCI Track Cham­pi­ons League from 2022, and no longer host the sec­ond round of the in­au­gur­al league on No­vem­ber 20, 2021. Fol­low­ing re­cent guid­ance from the French gov­ern­ment, the velo­drome just out­side Paris will con­tin­ue to be used as an es­sen­tial com­mu­ni­ty vac­ci­na­tion cen­tre un­til the end of the year and is there­fore un­able to ful­fil its role as a host venue. Due to the lim­it­ed time re­main­ing to de­liv­er a pre­mi­um event in an al­ter­na­tive lo­ca­tion, the can­celled round will not be re­placed in the 2021 race cal­en­dar."

The Track Cham­pi­ons League has been con­cep­tu­alised in or­der to gen­er­ate greater fan en­gage­ment for the sport, rid­ers will com­pete in the six rounds for po­si­tions on the league ta­ble and to de­ter­mine who is the world's best. Cy­clists com­pete in in­di­vid­ual sprint (match sprint and keirin) and in­di­vid­ual en­durance (elim­i­na­tion and scratch) events on­ly.

A prize pot of €500,000 will be shared equal­ly, with the over­all win­ner of each cat­e­go­ry re­ceiv­ing €25,000. The ac­tion will un­fold across a fast-paced two-hour race pro­gramme sched­uled in prime­time Sat­ur­day evening across con­sec­u­tive week­ends.


Click HERE to Login

Want FREE access to all our content? Sign up HERE!

Tagged in:

Responses

Related articles

Sponsored

Weather

PORT OF SPAIN WEATHER

Sponsored

Trending

Acting CoP suspends officer in traffic warden viral video
Harewood-Christopher in pole position for CoP job
Cop captured in social media row with Traffic Warden suspended
Nine Vindra Naipaul-Coolman murder accused to receive $20M from State
State must pay $20m for failed Naipaul-Coolman case
President sends Erla Christopher's name to Parliament for CoP nominee debate
Highest-ranking name for new Police Commissioner delivered to President
Griffith silent on Kamla’s call for unity: PDP, Duke, some ex-UNC MPs not interested
Piarco records the lowest temperature in January in 10 years
US resident held with ammo in Piarco airport
Today's
Guardian
View
Subscribe

Publications

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Pain, power and poison...a review of Hungry Ghosts by Kevin Jared Hosein

20230126132207
2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

Adrian Pope

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

2022 TS Eliot Prize winner Anthony Joseph as he reads from his winning collection of poems Sonnets for Albert at the award ceremony in London on January 16.

Adrian Pope

2022 TS Eliot poetry prize winner memorialises 'charismatic' father

20230126141654

Numbness in your feet?

20230123072450

Your walking gear matters!

20230116101944
Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

News

Business

Sports

Life

Opinion

Tobago Today

Classifieds

Death Notices

Subscriptions

Real Estate

Categories

News
Business
Sports
Features
Opinion
Traffic Cameras
Death Notices

INFORMATION

About Us
Contact Us
Advertise With Us
Privacy Policy
Subscriptions
Terms of Services

Digital Media

The Big Board Company.
Real Estate
Classifieds

TELEVISION

CNC3 Television

RADIO

951 Remix
Sangeet 106.1 FM
Sky 99.5FM
Slam 100.5 FM
Vibe CT 105 FM
Mix 90.1 FM (Guyana)
Freedom 106.5 FM

About Us

Guardian Media is the premier provider of multimedia solutions and authoritative insight on news, politics, business, finance, sports, and current affairs. Our brand portfolio includes CNC3, Guardian, TBC Radio Network and The Big Board Company.

Contact us

Send us an e-mail here or call us at +1-(868)-225-4465

Follow us