Canadian Cycling submits bid for Worlds
The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) has taken UCI president Pat McQuaid up on his earlier suggestion, which was that the 2015 UCI Road World Championships should be hosted by Canada.
In 2010, the Canadian province of Quebec was the host of the Para-cycling World Championships and the Mountain Bike World Championships.
"Canada has hosted the UCI Road World Championships twice in the history of the event, most recently when Hamilton, Ontario welcomed the world's top cyclists in 2003," read the statement by the CCA. "The other occasion was 1974 in Montréal as an Olympic
test event."
The MTB World Championships were held at Mont-Sainte-Anne in Quebec, which was the location hinted at by McQuaid when he suggested Canada as a candidate. The province also held two highly successful one-day ProTour races in September in Montreal and Quebec
City, the first two ProTour races in North America.
"The fact that they are hosting these ProTour races here and they have a license to host them for the next five years means that, within that scope, cycling will develop and interest of cycling will be strong within the city and province of Quebec...based
on those facts, it would be a natural consideration to bid for the cycling world championships."
The CCA has not named a specific city in their bid, but they are accepting bids for candidature from eligible organizing committees. The full candidature is due to be filed to the CCA by December 7th of this year. The public naming of the Canadian
candidate in scheduled for December 15th and the UCI will unveil the chosen location during the 2011 Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.
"The interest is there in terms of globalizing cycling. For candidature in 2015, the UCI would need to start working with potential candidates starting next year and onwards. But certainly we would welcome a candidature from an established cycling region
which has support from the cycling region as well."
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