The International Cycling Union is becoming even more global. On Tuesday, November 24, it announced the opening of a “satellite center” in New Delhi, India. A high-level training complex which will be located at the New Delhi Velodrome, within the “Indira Gandhi Sports Complex”, inherited from the 2010 Commonwealth Games and which hosted the Asian Track Cup in 2015. Objective: establish a world-class team in preparation for the 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. More than a training center for athletes, the satellite will create and develop a high-level structure that will benefit everyone the levels, from talent detection to elite training, including the development of juniors. The center will also train coaches and mechanics, and offer refresher courses for administrative, technical and medical staff. It should have its first interns in 2016.
— Published on November 25, 2015
