TABLE OF CONTENTS PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ..................................................................... 2 MANAGEMENT & PERFORMANCE REPORTS ............................... 6 The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) ............................................ 8 One Sport, Nine Disciplines ................................................................ 10 Director General’s Report .................................................................... 14 International Relations ......................................................................... 18 A year of Sport and Events .................................................... 28 Road cycling .............................................................................. 30 Track cycling .............................................................................. 36 Mountain bike .......................................................................... 42 BMX Racing ............................................................................... 48 BMX Freestyle ............................................................................ 52 Para-cycling ............................................................................... 56 Cyclo-cross ................................................................................ 60 Trials ............................................................................................ 64 Indoor cycling ........................................................................... 68 The UCI World Cycling Centre ............................................................ 74 Cycling for All ......................................................................................... 80 Mass Participation Events .................................................................... 86 Clean Sport ........................................................................................... 90 FINANCIAL REPORT ............................................................................. 94 Commentary - UCI Chief Financial Officer ....................................... 96 Audit and Finance Committee Report to the UCI Congress .......... 100 Auditors’ Report on the Consolidated Financial Statements ........ 102 Consolidated Financial Statements - UCI and CMC ....................... 104 Auditors’ Report on the Statutory Financial Statements ............... 128 UCI Statutory Financial Statements ................................................... 130 UCI WorldTour ....................................................................................... 133 APPENDICES ......................................................................................... 134 List of National Federations ................................................................ 136 Management Committee and General Organisation ................... 140 Commissions and judicial bodies ...................................................... 144 2017 Results & Standings ..................................................................... 150 Table of contents | 1 PRESIDENT’S 2 | President’s message It is with enormous pride that showing true leadership, we will It will be the UCI’s responsibility I address you in the Annual improve its governance, make it a to be truly ambitious Report of the Union Cycliste strong and influential Federation, with professional cycling. Internationale (UCI) for the first and give it a greater role within Relationships between different time as President of this truly the Olympic and Paralympic stakeholders must therefore be wonderful institution. movements. improved, in order to carry out progressive but credible reform. From the moment the election By making the UCI World Cycling results were announced back Centre (WCC) a major player Finally, guaranteeing the on 21st September in Bergen in sporting development and credibility of results and (NOR), I have acknowledged the excellence, reinforcing the UCI protecting the athletes will scale of the responsibility with Solidarity and Cooperative always be at the heart of our which I have been entrusted by Programme, modernising priorities. In this regard, we have the UCI’s National Federations. I the format of our World already announced tougher had stated during my campaign Championships and developing measures to tackle technological that I wanted to make cycling a new, practical tools, we are fraud. We intend to contribute 21st-century sport; please believe putting the UCI at the service of to the evolution of the fight me when I say that the plan has the National Federations. against doping on a global not changed, and it is with that scale, protect our athletes, in mind that I have been working The first evidence of this guarantee a level playing field – – with the help of my colleagues commitment was the by, for example, implementing on the Management Committee, immediate strengthening of independent medical supervision my Director General Amina the UCI’s International Relations and improving race safety – and Lanaya and the excellent staff of Department, increasing its size devising a policy on the risks of the UCI – since late 2017. from one to three employees. sports betting. Led by my Director of Cabinet Tomorrow’s cycling is built Marjorie Guillaume, this The fact that we are currently today. In Innsbruck (AUT) next department is now working in in a position to have all these September during the 2018 UCI tandem with the UCI WCC to ambitions is thanks to our Road World Championships, support the development of Federation being in excellent the UCI Congress will have cycling in the regions of the financial and structural health. the opportunity to ratify the world where the need is greatest. This is evidenced by the UCI Agenda 2022, which sets significant progress achieved out our strategic aims and I also introduced the over the past few months. plans for the next four years. Solidarity and Small Countries Developed in conjunction with Commission, whose objectives Firstly, we are delighted by the our Management Committee, are to provide help to National introduction of the Madison and based on my programme, Federations and Continental and BMX Freestyle Park into the “Our Passion”, this document Confederations in order programme for the Tokyo 2020 will contain the UCI’s concrete to support their cycling Olympic Games. This decision, objectives in the five areas development programmes in taken by the International I championed during the all their forms and across all Olympic Committee (IOC)’s campaign. disciplines, to consider and Executive Board, makes cycling provide a framework for creating the third most important sport in For example, my goal is to World Championships for the terms of medals (66) and athlete strengthen and invigorate smaller nations and to improve quotas (528). the UCI Congress, and make cooperation between member the annual gathering a real countries. We have also worked extremely platform for the different hard, with the support of our National Federations on all five Our commitment to making different stakeholders, to continents, my colleagues on the cycling a 21st-Century sport will improve the safety of the peloton Management Committee, the be based on being ambitious and the rest of the race convoy. UCI staff and myself to exchange with women’s cycling and the role We have taken the decision to ideas. From 2018, I want the day of women in the cycling family, limit the size of the peloton to to be an unmissable event for developing cycling in society and a maximum of 176 riders in all the entire cycling family. encouraging each of the cycling events on the UCI International disciplines individually. Road Calendar. In order to reinforce the authority of the UCI, with a President President’s message | 3 A specific section on risk Since then, we have introduced representatives: one man and prevention has been added our action plan for 2018 – the one woman. The Czech rider to the ‘Specifications for most robust ever implemented Katerina Nash was elected to Organisers’ document relating to combat technological fraud the post of President during to UCI WorldTour races, which – and also have a number the Commission’s first meeting. requires them to evaluate the of innovative technologies She was also co-opted onto the risks in the final three kilometres currently in development. Management Committee, and and provide teams with a video will remain in post until the UCI of this section of the route The UCI will now use a range of Congress in 2021. Furthermore, in advance, identifying the measures that encompasses all the proposal to make the potential dangers. the detection methods currently President of the UCI Athletes’ available. In addition to the Commission a full member of Since the beginning of magnetic scanning tablets the Management Committee – the 2017 season, three UCI and thermal imaging cameras which would give the athletes’ Technical Advisers have been already in use, the UCI has representative the same rights in attendance at UCI WorldTour procured a mobile x-ray unit as all other members – will races. In addition to their specially designed for the fight be put to a vote at the 2018 principal aim of evaluating against technological fraud. Congress in Innsbruck-Tyrol the organisational quality of (AUT). events, these advisers also In order to reinforce these work closely with the organisers measures, we have also signed I wish to repeat that all these and Commissaires to propose a partnership with CEA Tech, important developments solutions to specific