Brian Cookson can rub his hands together. Meeting for the second time of the year, Wednesday June 28 in Copenhagen, the steering committee of the International Cycling Union (UCI) formally approved the organization's annual report for 2016. A document which reveals that the UCI has achieved “an excellent year in terms of its commercial activities” last year, according to a press release issued at the end of the meeting. It would thus find itself “in the best financial position it has ever known in its history”. A situation which should benefit its president, the Briton Brian Cookson, in the race for a second term at the head of the UCI, facing a strong rival, the Frenchman David Lappartient, the president of the European Union of cycling.
— Published June 29, 2017
