The UCI will test mixed-gender cycling events for potential inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, .
National federations have been asked to send young riders to trials at the UCI鈥檚 velodrome in Switzerland. The trials will not be open to the public. The Madison, a team event in track cycling, is one candidate to become a mixed-gender event, as are team time trial events on the road and track.
The impetus to investigate mixed-gender events came from the International Olympic Committee, which could include mixed-gender events as soon as the 2018 Winter Olympics.
鈥淲e would be prepared to put it on the table for Tokyo,鈥 UCI president Brian Cookson told Reuters. 鈥淚f [the trials] are a disaster and doesn鈥檛 work, we can report back to the IOC and say we tried it, but it鈥檚 impractical.鈥