Laura Kenny unhappy with new Omnium format
'They're ruining the history of it' says Olympic and world c𝓀hampion 🍨as she gets her first taste of the changes





168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Laura Kenny is far fr🦩om pleased with the overhaul of the Omnium format, arguing that the 🥃UCI are "ruining the history" of the event and that the changes will lead to negative racing.
In October, as part of 168澳洲5最ꦿ新开奖结果:sweeping changes𒀰 to the track programme, it was announced that the number of races in the event would be reduced from siꦰx to four. Thღe individual timed events - pursuit, flying lap, and 500m time trial - were axed, leaving the scratch race, elimination race, points race, and an all-new 'tempo race'.
"I'm all up for change💙 because it keeps training fresh. But when the UCI made the changes I was gutted," Kenny told the Reuters press agency.
The 24-year-old, née Trott, is the reigning world champion in the Omnium and won the gold medal at the last two Olympic Games. At the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Revolution Champions League finale in London this weekend, she got her first taste of racing the new format, finishing second behind Neah Evanꦬs.
That result is mostly a reflection of her form, as she comes back from her post-Olympic switch-off and gears up for🤡 the World Championships next ꧂year, but she does feel the changes means the event is now less well suited to her.
"For me personally they've got rid of two strong events for me the 500m and the flying lap. That brings otℱher riders into play.
"They are ruining the history of it," she added. "You won't be able t♈o look back over the results and compare results."
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Kenny had to 'learn a new race', as꧂ she put it, at the Revolution meet, but her first impressions of the tempo race weren't positive.
"It's a weird ജrace," she said of the 7.5km mass-start event in which two points are awarded for the leading rider 💫each lap, and 20 for a lap gain.
Speaking before she tried it 🐲for the first time, she said: "Every time you come across the line first you get ꦛa point. Is it? Or is it two? I've got to do this tomorrow and I don't even know! I haven't got a clue! I'll just be riding around, like 'what's happening?', help me!"
Kenny ended up finishing third and there was no ꧒disappointment in finishing runner-up overall.
"I'm not 100 per cent fit yet," she said. "I did a team pursuit recent🐭ly and didn't even finish.
"I missed it, I've been looking forward to racing. I expected to go badly though. My full throttle here won't be like myℱ full throttle in Rio. But it's great to be racing in front of a home crowd again."