July 7/06 11:26 am - UCI News

Posted by Editoress on 07/7/06
 

UCI NEws
Courtesy UCI

The UCI's Management Committee met today and yesterday in Lausanne for its traditional summer session, which was opened by an intervention of Mr. Jacques Rogge, President of the IOC.

During its two days of deliberations, the Management Committee went through all the development plans of all its cycling disciplines, presented in four-year plans format.

Amongst all adopted decisions, the following World Championships were awarded:

Masters MTB 2007- 2009: Pra Loup (Fra)
MTB / Trials 2008 : Val Di Sole (Ita)
Cyclo-Cross 2009: Hoogerheide (Ned)
Track 2009: Pruszkow (Pol)

Seven events of the UCI's 2007 Women's Road World Cup were also retained by the Management Committee:

Womens World Cup - Geelong (Aus)
Ronde van Vlaanderen / Tour des Flandres (Bel)
Ronde van Drenthe (Ned)
La Flèche Wallonne (Bel)
Berner-Rundfahrt / Tour de Berne (Sui
La Coupe du Monde Cycliste Féminine de Montréal (Can)
GP de Plouay (Fra)
Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt (Ger)

The Management Committee also approved the proposal from the Road Commission aiming at creating a Nations' Cup for the Under-23 category, which would unroll on 7-8 events (by stage and in line), of which's selection would be based on organisation and participation capacity.