USA Cycling to announce 2020 Olympics long team PLUS National Championships updates

As America and the world starts to emerge from pandemic lockdown, USA Cycling is ready to announce long teams for the 2020 Olympics as well as new dates for National Championships across a range of disciplines.

Olympic Long Teams to be Announced Monday

USA Cycling will announce their Olympic Long Teams for the Road, Track, and Mountain Bike disciplines on June 2, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. MDT. The announcement will be livestreamed on the USA Cycling website. The show will be hosted by Steve Schlanger, a veteran broadcaster who’s done play-by-play for NBC for the Cycling World Championships and will have special guest Patrick Dempsey, the Honorary Captain of the Olympic Cycling Team and avid cyclist.

“We’re excited to announce our long team. Having a platform for our athletes to shine, and giving our audience the chance to engage with them is a new opportunity for USA Cycling,” said Jim Miller, the Chief of Sport Performance. “We believe we had a good team that would have competed in Tokyo this year. With an extra year to prepare we believe we will have a great team.”

The show will be produced by Dragonfli Media and feature hosting duties and a number of special guests all being piped in remotely from around the country.  Long-time NBC Cycling and Olympics announcer Steve Schlanger will anchor the show with a special appearance by actor, director, and Honorary Olympic Cycling Team Captain, Patrick Dempsey. But the true stars of the show will be the athletes with five of the named athletes being interviewed remotely about their emotions in making the team and the challenges and opportunities surrounding an Olympics now taking place in July and August, 2021.

The event will also be promoted and available through media outlets like the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, Bicycling, VeloNews, and CyclingNews.

Visit USACycling.org for more information on the athletes, events and membership programs, and follow @USACycling across all channels for the latest on Team USA.

For more information, contact Bouker Pool at bpool@usacycling.org

National Championship Dates Moved

As we enter what would normally be the height of our National Championship season, we continue to work on solutions to hold our events later in the year. We will continue to have weekly calls with our Local Organizing Committees, review and monitor state and local re-opening guidelines, and discuss the challenging topic on finances with our equally impacted host communities.

As an option for postponement of Pro Road Nationals, we have looked at combining this event with our Masters Road Nationals. We are currently waiting on final date confirmation of the UCI Road World Championships and will continue to work through alternative options.

We are working with our partner, Winter Park Resort, to stay up to date on the potential restrictions to be placed on our venue for Mountain Bike Nationals. We hoped to have additional information at this time, unfortunately, the Governor’s office and the county are still assessing summer operations for ski resorts.

As higher education institutions weigh their options for a fall semester, we along with the collegiate clubs, teams and students wait to see what the outcome of their assessments will be. We will also consider the safety, qualification requirements and the viability of school participation for the fall Collegiate Nationals. We will be consulting with schools over the coming weeks as decisions are made in regard to in-person classes, athletic policies and team travel and funding restrictions.

We continue to look at postponement dates and have listed the revisions for several events below. There are many considerations when rescheduling these events, including condensing four months of racing into a two-month window, finding dates that work with our host communities’ revised local calendars, and the logistics of moving required equipment and staff. We recognize that not all of these dates will fit with people’s schedules, other events that have been postponed to the fall, or with other scheduled National Championship events.

We want to be clear that even though events may be currently postponed, if we cannot reasonably ensure the safety of our members, volunteers and host communities we will not run a National Championship.

We will continue to provide status updates over the next couple of months and provide dates by which final decisions will be made in the next update. We will not open any registration until we are confident we can successfully and safely hold an event.

Please continue to ride safe, enjoy the start of summer and we’ll be in touch.

*Unless relevant information dictates an earlier notification.

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Visit USACycling.org for more information on the athletes, events and membership programs, and follow @USACycling across all channels for the latest on Team USA.

For more information, contact Tara McCarthy at tmccarthy@usacycling.org

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