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Cycling for riders with disabilities
Throughout the world, more than 500 million people live with a disability. Many of them practice a sporting activity, and some of them manage to realise their dream of becoming top-level athletes.
Providing the opportunity to allow each and everyone to fulfil their potential is a concern which ensures the constant activity of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC ) and the International Cycling Union (UCI) in this area. These joint actions lead to a cooperation agreement signed in 2002 by Hein Verbruggen, former UCI President, and Philip Craven, IPC President.
The UCI has worked towards the integration of cycling for riders with disabilities, by:
- adding a section «Cycling for riders with disabilities» in its rules,
- including races in this discipline on its international calendar,
- deploying its International Commissaires at these races,
- producing rankings in this discipline.
Currently riders with disabilities compete in road and track races. The addition of other cycling disciplines governed by the UCI is being studied.
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The International Cycling Union (UCI), founded in 1900, is the association of National Cycling Federations. In close cooperation with these bodies, it governs, manages and develops cycling in all its form, with the greatest respect of the fundamental principles of equality, universality and integration.
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC), founded in 1989, is the international governing body of sports for athletes with a disability and acts as the International Federation for 12 sports. It supervises and co-ordinates the Paralympic Summer and Winter Games and other multi-disability competitions, eg, World Championships. The IPC also supports the recruitment and development of athletes at a local, national and international level across all performance levels.
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