On March 1, the UCI announced during the World Championships in Berlin that a new circuit would be built to make track cycling more attractive and accessible. On Thursday, the UCI and media partner Eurosport presented the name and logo of the circuit. Briton Chris Hoy and German Kristina Vogel are the project’s ambassadors.
The first edition of the Champions League will consist of 6 stages. Initially, the first of these was to take place in the fall of 2021 and the last in February 2022. But due to the corona pandemic, a more compact program was eventually chosen: six consecutive weekends in November and December 2021, and that perhaps only in European velodromes.
The UCI goes for meetings of about two hours. “Dynamic and attractive and adapted to the wishes of the television viewer. We want to reach a new audience.”
At each of the track meetings in the Champions League, both men and women have four parts: sprint, keirin, scratch and elimination race. The riders can decorate their ticket for the Champions League at the 2021 World Cup, where the top nine of the sprint and the keirin and all the medal winners of the group competitions will be placed. The UCI promises them “an attractive prize pool”.
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