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Track World Cup returns to London in December

BBC to cover three days of track racing
by John Stevenson
Tue, Aug 19, 2014 14:24
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British Cycling has announced that the UK round of the UCI Track Cycling World Cup will be held at the Olympic velodrome at London’s Lee Valley VeloPark over the weekend of December 5-7.

The second round of the 2014-15 World Cup series will see the Great Britain Cycling Team return to compete at the venue where they won nine medals at the London 2012 Olympic Games. 

The event is part of UK Sport’s Gold Event Series, which aims to bring 70 world class sporting events to the UK by 2019. 

Jonny Clay, British Cycling’s cycle sport and membership director, said of the announcement: “We are delighted that the UCI has awarded an event in its World Cup series to the UK once again, recognising our continued commitment to the sport and world-renowned standard of event delivery. 

“We look forward to seeing Great Britain’s athletes return to London and a venue that will hold special memories for many of our cyclists after the phenomenal success they achieved at the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games."

The World Cup will once again receive coverage on the BBC with details of broadcast to be confirmed closer to the event. 

Tickets are expected be in high demand and will go on general sale on Tuesday, September 9 with British Cycling members having access to an exclusive pre-sale period from Thursday, September 4. 

For more information see the official event website www.trackworldcup.co.uk.

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John Stevenson

John has been writing about bikes and cycling for over 30 years since discovering that people were mug enough to pay him for it rather than expecting him to do an honest day's work.

He was heavily involved in the mountain bike boom of the late 1980s as a racer, team manager and race promoter, and that led to writing for Mountain Biking UK magazine shortly after its inception. He got the gig by phoning up the editor and telling him the magazine was rubbish and he could do better. Rather than telling him to get lost, MBUK editor Tym Manley called John’s bluff and the rest is history.

Since then he has worked on MTB Pro magazine and was editor of Maximum Mountain Bike and Australian Mountain Bike magazines, before switching to the web in 2000 to work for CyclingNews.com. Along with road.cc founder Tony Farrelly, John was on the launch team for BikeRadar.com and subsequently became editor in chief of Future Publishing’s group of cycling magazines and websites, including Cycling Plus, MBUK, What Mountain Bike and Procycling.

John has also written for Cyclist magazine, edited the BikeMagic website and was founding editor of TotalWomensCycling.com before handing over to someone far more representative of the site's main audience.

He joined road.cc in 2013. He lives in Cambridge where the lack of hills is more than made up for by the headwinds.

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