2020 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS IN LEOGANG
The UCI have announced a combined Mountain Bike World Championships event including Pump Track, Cross-Country, Downhill and eMTB titles all to be held in Leogang, Austria from 6-11 October. Originally, just the Downhill and Pump Track titles were going to be contested in Leogang.
“The UCI contacted us and asked if we saw an opportunity to integrate the Cross-Country and eMTB competitions of the World Championships from Albstadt into our Downhill and Pumptrack World Championships,” said Marco Pointner, one of the organisers. “After we checked everything internally, it was clear to us that we could tackle a quadruple World Championships and that we wanted to take on the challenge,” But, there’s plenty of work to do as Kornel Grundner, another organiser, adds, “The short-term is not optimal and rather unusual. The tracks for the Cross-Country competitions have yet to be completed. But the biggest challenge is that we are prepared for all eventualities. We don’t know how the pandemic will develop.”
“We are currently working on four different “corona-ready” concepts,” explains Grundner. “First of all for all athletes and teams, then for the entire media sector from journalists to TV teams, for all our own employees and helpers, as well as for
