Cookson concern over velodrome test event at Rio (The Associated Press)

A new construction company has been appointed to finish the velodrome with organizers confident the test event – which had already been pushed back – will take place between April 29 and May 1. UCI president Brian Cookson is confident the track will be ready for the Olympics but he expressed his concern about the test event with less than eight weeks to go. ”We are assured by the Rio organizing committee that the dates 29th April to 1st of May will still be deliverable but I think that’s a challenge,” Cookson told reporters at the track cycling world championships in London.