Team continuation, points race, scratch, individual speed … The Foix velodrome will accommodate the cream of the cream of young pistards

With the exception of the French Master championships organized in Foix, three years ago now, the Cité Comtale Vélodrome had not organized a national competition among young people for almost 30 years. The organization, on May 17 and 18, of a Junior Junior Cup on track is therefore a hell of a event, and the French cycling federation therefore gives the Fuxean handlebars again.

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“With my son Adrien, we went several times to Loudéac, explains Alexandre Maury, the president of the Ariège club. I asked the managers the dates of the various French cups. Traditionally, it was Poitiers who organized the spring Channel. But it was not possible this year. As here, it is an open track that undergoes the whims of the weather.

If it was not easy to bring together the organizational budget, around 10,000 euros, Alexandre Maury salutes “the involvement of all partners, public or private.” And Foix takes the opportunity to kill two shots with one stone with, on May 24 and 25, the organization of an interregional cadet competition (Saturday May 24) and the Grand Prix de Foix (25). Enough to put this velodrome even further which is one of the most beautiful throughout the great South.

The Fuxéen Adrien Maury in the selection of Occitania

The Junior French Cup organized in Foix in fifteen days is one of the most important in the season, with the French championships which will take place in Loudéac. The cream of the cream of young French pistards will be there, between 80 and 90 competitors and competitors. “This is the only compulsory French Cup for regional committees. If they do not send a delegation, they will not be able to participate in the French championships,” said Alexandre Maury. Among the men’s juniors, the teams will be made up of at least three runners, at most four. No limitation on the other hand in women, the outdoor cadets that can participate in the competition.

In this very high level concert, Occitania hopes to get out of the game. A team of Occitania who will be taken by the premises of the stage, Adrien Maury. At 18, the Ariégeois has just celebrated his first selection in the French track team in Switzerland. He will be one of the American’s favorites, of which he is the defending French champion. But Occitania wants to shine everywhere: “We should be quite a few team pursuit and we hope to appear in the bottom tests”, hopes the president of the Fuxean handlebars.

Races for all tastes

For two days, the events will be linked: points race, scratch, American, elimination, individual speed, 500 m departure stopped, there will be something for everyone. The team pursuit and a tempo race are added to the program of men’s juniors. Organizer of the event, the Ariège will also have the chance to align a team of four runners. A superb opportunity for these young people to confront what is best in France.

In the footsteps of Mélanie Combes, “she does the bulk of the job”, on the Fuxean handlebars, we put the double bites so that everything is ready. The success of the French Master championships had already given the Fuxean Velodrome in the light. This junior French cup round should give it an additional shine.