The UCI conducted a thorough review of the BMX calendar in 2012. As a result, the BMX Commission introduced a Category 1 International class for events and withdrew the former Categories 4 and 5. The new category makes more UCI points available and the UCI World Cup ranking is now taken into account when calculating UCI World Championship quotas. After a slight drop in the number of races on the calendar to 90 in 2013 – a post-Olympic year – there was a return to a positive trend in 2014 with 117 events registered on the UCI calendar, an increase of 30%.
Plan for BMX teams
The coherence of the calendar is a healthy indicator of the credibility of BMX as an Olympic discipline. BMX has been part of the Olympic programme twice since the 2008 Beijing Games and the discipline will be even more professional by the time of the 2016 Rio Games … More