UCI to bid for two more Olympic track medals

Women's points race, London 2012 Olympic Games, track day five

The Union Cycliste International (UCI) will ask the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to increase the number of Olympic medals in track competition ahead of the 2016 Rio Games.

UCI President Pat McQuaid said: "Currently you have three sprint disciplines and two endurance disciplines. The UCI would like to put in another endurance discipline and give us three and three."

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Simon Richardson
Magazine editor

Editor of Cycling Weekly magazine, Simon has been working at the title since 2001. He fell in love with cycling 1989 when watching the Tour de France on Channel 4, started racing in 1995 and in 2000 he spent one season racing in Belgium. During his time at CW (and Cycle Sport magazine) he has written product reviews, fitness features, pro interviews, race coverage and news. He has covered the Tour de France more times than he can remember along with two Olympic Games and many other international and UK domestic races. He became the 130-year-old magazine's 13th editor in 2015.