UCI Track World Championships

Cycle speedway, bike polo, and a reprisal of the iconic Sallanches road circuit to feature in the UCI 2027 combined format 'super world championships.'

American rider bounces back from fractured nose but ultimately has to settle for silver medal after earlier exertion takes its toll.

Olympic star now has three individual elite world championship titles and a total of 20 world championship medals.

Landmark first joint championships shines spotlight on the sport and could change it forever.

Valente levels with Sarah Hammer as the most decorated American track cyclist in history after emphatic victory in Glasgow.

Dygert roars to her fourth career IP title, and will race next in team pursuit as well as in time trial and the road race: 'I am so happy to be on the top step.'

USAC sets out improvements with a new five-point plan put in place ahead of Paris 2024 Olympic selection.

Athletes' contracts allow for fair comment but instruct against defamatory remarks.

Valente won all three of USA Cycling's medals on the boards in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in France.

Ineos Grendiers riders return to track spotlight as Ganna, Bigham, Hayter dominate the boards.

Valente delivers Team USA its first gold medal of the 2022 worlds.

In high praise of track, or, an indictment of my obliterated attention span.

The Italian, who only last week broke the UCI Hour Record, set a time of 3:59:636.

The British team puts the disappointment of the Olympic Games behind them by beating Italy in thrilling final.

American avoids a mid-race crash to take America's first medal at this year's championships.

From cyclocross to track racing, and cycling documentaries and random YouTube rabbit holes, there are plenty of ways to feed the racing fix.

Reigning individual pursuit world champion content with his track legacy: 'There was nothing more to be done.'

An overview of all the events and the title favorites for the track worlds, which takes place this week in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

A pursuit final is always tricky, because the time actually doesn't matter; it's the purest form of a race.

Although all competition tracks are 250m, there aren't many standards aside from that. Here's what I learned ahead of my world-title race.

How do you go from a world record ride, and keep exploring new areas of performance?

Gold-painted Pinarellos and several other bikes have been found a week after they were stolen.

Final day of competition sees many Olympic champions add rainbows to their trophy case.

Hayter wins world title after breakout road and track season, Kirsten Wild and Amy Pieters make it three-in-a-row in women's madison, and more.

The custom track bikes, some of them bright gold, were stolen from a team van in a guarded hotel parking lot during the Track World Champs.

Here's the news making headlines for Saturday, October 23.

The American rider Ashton Lambie blasted to individual pursuit glory, but what else happened at track worlds on Friday? Here's a wrap.

With a time of 4:05.060, Lambie takes a world title not held by an American man since Taylor Phinney in 2010.

Filippo Ganna leads home gold in men's pursuit, while Germany edges the Italians in the women's pursuit and Donavan Grondin wins scratch race.

Germany won the women's team sprint while the Dutch won its fourth straight title in men's sprint in the first day of racing in Roubaix.

Just months after racing for gold in Japan, some of the world's fastest track cyclists head to Roubaix for the 2021 track cycling world championships.

Goodbye Turkmenistan, hello Roubaix.

Noreen Landis-Tyson served as the first female president of the commissaire's panel at the UCI Track World Championships, and she is the first woman to hold that position at the Tokyo Olympics.

It was supposed to be one of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov's best days of the year.

The 2021 Ashgabat Track Worlds are a non-starter.

The 2021 Track Worlds host will offer free COVID-19 vaccines to all athletes – despite denying the existence of COVID in the country.

Flobikes will be the exclusive online streaming partner for UCI championship events for 2021-2024.

When politics, business and sport collide: the strange story of international cycling's dance with one of the world's most notorious dictators.

World champions who are unable to defend their title due to an event cancellation will get to wear the rainbow stripes an extra year.

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The return of the two-rider discipline for Tokyo revives Olympic dreams for Danish veteran.

VeloNews provides an up-close, inside view of how Team USA prepared for racing in Berlin, Germany.

The United States women's team pursuit crossed the line 1.8 seconds ahead of Great Britain—a sizable margin in a race often decided by tenths of a second.

The Team USA women’s squad led the way, with Jennifer Valente winning two silvers in endurance races in the scratch and points races, and gold in the team pursuit.

The UCI will shake up elite track cycling with new reforms for 2021. The World Cup is seeing a makeover along with introduction of a new TV-friendly series backed by Eurosport.

The American broke her own mark twice in Berlin on Saturday en route to winning the world title in individual pursuit

The American prodigy continues to dominate on the track and will race for the gold medal Saturday evening

Danish rider will race in Berlin after first wave of health controls at the UAE Tour reveal no traces of coronavirus.

After setting the world record twice in individual pursuit—once in 2018 and again in 2019—Lambie was a medal-favorite for Berlin.

The 25-year-old is the most experienced racer in a young and talented women's team, taking silver in her first of five events in Berlin.

USA Women's Team Pursuit put themselves in pole position for the world title round, posting fastest qualifying time.

A member of the world champion 2017 and 2018 USA Women's Team Pursuit offers an insider's insight into watching the fastest event on the track.

The three-time UCI World Champion Women’s Team Pursuit squad will be looking to earn another rainbow jersey.

The prolific sprinter will miss a shot at racing for the Olympic gold medal in the Madison this summer, but insists he is back in top shape for the road season.

The UCI's new reforms to track racing leave no room for sponsor-backed trade teams

Scotland will host the first unified cycling world championships, which the UCI will run every four years on a cycle one year ahead of the Summer Olympics.

USA Cycling's new National Team program begins to pay off with medals at 2018 world track championships.

American Chloe Dygert set a new world record and claimed the world title in the women's 3km individual pursuit at the world track championships.

The United States team wins third consecutive world championship in the women's team pursuit in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

Sarah Hammer rides to her 15th career world championship medal in points race behind Britain's Elinor Barker.

American Chloe Dygert won her first individual world title by a whopping 7.143 seconds in the women's individual pursuit.

The American women's team pursuit squad wins its second championship in a row at Hong Kong track worlds.

British Cycling is still reeling from an off-the-track scandal that involved allegations of sexism and bullying.

The UCI updates track cycling formats, eliminating timed events from the omnium and adding a women's Madison race.

Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins earned a big win in the Madison at worlds, and the Internet reacted as you might expect.

The 2016 UCI Track Cycling World Championships took place at the velodrome used for the 2012 London Olympics.

Mark Cavendish bounces back from a disappointing omnium performance to win another Madison world title alongside Bradley Wiggins

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The American women’s team pursuit took its first-ever world title Friday, riding a 4:16.802 to best Canada in the gold medal round

Chloe Dygert and the U.S. women's team pursuit squad will square off against Canada for the gold medal Friday

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Bradley Wiggins and the British squad were narrowly beaten by Australia in the team pursuit at UCI Track World Championships.

A young American team of Sarah Hammer, Jennifer Valente, Chloe Dygert, and Kelly Catlin breaks U.S. team pursuit record at worlds.

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