If the Olympic Committee continue in their present form on Cycling by 2054 there will be no cycling at all at the Olympic Games, this attack on Cycling has to be stopped now.

This persecution of Cycling has to be compared with unfettered swelling of the events in Swimming and team sports.

It is not clear where this weakness in the representation of cycling exists but it has to be brought out into the open now and resolved in court.

The process of removing events such as the track time trial, individual pursuit and Madison means each of these events are reduced in stature on the world stage, just as putting in events such as beach sports legitimises their existence – so this is an attack by the Olympic movement on the integrity of Cycling.

Instead of just reducing events it should be increasing events as it has done in all other sports.

The cycling federation should consider removing Cycling completely from the Olympic movement as it continues its process of dumbing down.

This process started with the replacement of the Kilo time trail with Bmx, but when they introduced jump skiing – did they then cut out one of the blue ribbon downhill events – of course not – Switzerland would not have been happy – there are different rules being applied and this has to be reversed.