Brian Cookson always wanted to make cycling more attractive. Indeed, the UCI president wishes to do a few changements in track cycling, especially during the Olympic Games. The International Olympic Committee vote in favour of scrapping the Games’ 28-sport cap and put up a cap on the number of athletes, at 10,500.

The IOC wishes to foster gender equality by including mixed-gender team events. Cookson told Reuters that cycling would have to consider such changes: “Men and women competing together, there is no history of that, maybe a team relay," he said. "We’d need to do some test events and to consult with the national federations, what would work and not work. Mixing men and women at the same event in the same time… If that is something the IOC feels would make cycling look attractive we need to look into that."

Velodromes are seen to be one of the more prohibitive buildings to construct specifically for an Olympic Games. You should know that to build a velodrome is very expensive for the organizers. At the London Olympics, the cost rose to € 118 million of euros, almost 12 million per event.