UCI cuts omnium from 6 events to 4 as part of track cycling reforms

It's the variety that makes anything interesting.  Maybe now they've removed most of the track events (from the omnium and in their own right over recent years) they'll need to re-introduce some excitement by constructing tracks with a figure of 8 layout.  UCI incompetence again

Based on the logic propounding it's a bit long, best get rid of the decathlon , heptathlon, pentathlon, 3 day eventing, dressage.

as for lacking excitement? Very subjective - archery for instance?

i liked the variety and challenge of sprint and endurance. I would have made the IP pure with it being a draw your opposition from a hat, flying lap is good too. 

But dropping all the sprints! Next someone will suggest dropping the kilo! A blue riband event!!!

How utterly ridiculous.  The point of a multi-event-event is it tests the riders' all-round abilities.

It's already somewhat strained by the need to ride around in circles but four different flavours of 'ride a long way, go fast now and again' is just crap.

Individual Pursuit in the omnium is a bit rubbish because as you don't win by catching your oppo ultimately it's a time trial but what's wrong with flying lap (top speed), 4k time trial (sustained high speed), elimination (tactics), scratch (different tactics), points (yes, more tactics) and, if they really want to be innovative, an anticlockwise flying lap?

I think I'm with the UCI on this one.

The Omnium is great in many ways, as it's a great test of overall ability across all formats and a real conisours event, but from an audience viewpoint, watching on telly or similar, it's very long and can be difficult to get into if you don't have the time to watch the whole thing.

Shortening to a single day makes it more likely that one can view the hole thing, and having all the riders on the track at the same time in all events means the excitement will be built up much more for each of the event.

If track racing is really your thing, go watch a 6 day event or similar where it will likely remain in original format. For the olympics though, where it's competing with all the other sports, making it easier to access and more exciting makes sense. 

Renaming it makes sense though, as I guess the UCI could now be done under the trade descriptions act, and they could perhaps keep it in original format for the cycling worlds.

IP, flying lap and TT would be the three I'd cut too if asked to make it more exciting

poor logic - might as well add the revolution longest lap thing where they all track stand for ages then sprint a lap!

Does ANYBODY within the UCI know,  or for that matter, care about track racing?  

The individual pursuit is the epitome of controlled riding on the track and, as such,  long considered the 'Blue Riband' of track racing.  The UCI reduced it a component of the omnium and now intend to lose it altogether.  The Omnium is supposed to celebrate the best all round riders, no just endurance riders.  Far from Increasing the number of 'endurance' races by including a spurious event made up for the purpose,  they should be looking at ways to make it reflect the spectrum of track racing.  Where, for example, is the individual sprint?

If the object is to make track racing more entertaining  (?)  I suggest the UCI sack whoever came up with this nonsense and appoint someone with some idea of track racing and entertainment. 

The name Dave Le Grys springs to my mind!

omni-: from Latin omnis, meaning ‘all’, 'of all things', 'in all ways or places'

-um: expressing hesitation or a pause in speech, as in "Um, what the hell are the UCI thinking?"

How can something reduced to "a pure endurance event" continue to be called the Omnium? Shouldn't it be renamed the Endurium? Or the Bore-off?