Does track cycling have something of a problem?

There is no doubt it has been a tough year at the top level on the boards.

As the likes of Tadej Pogačar, Remco Evenepoel and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot dominate attention on the road, achieving their monumental exploits amid a kaleidoscopic backdrop of achingly beautiful scenery and wall-to-wall coverage, velodromes have, at the highest international level at least, been left eerily silent.

Indeed, to casual observers, the track side of the sport is very much out of sight, out of mind — the only time most will even see a velodrome is on TV coverage of the finale of the Paris-Roubaix one-day classic in April.

This year, the UCI struggled to collate more than a couple of events of elite international track competitions, with just one Nations C

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