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27/08/2026

The 2026 UCI Junior Track World Championships brought together 47 nations, five days of racing and 22 rainbow jerseys.

Yet outside the velodrome, most people could not watch any of it.

There was no television coverage and no live stream. Supporters were left following timing screens, results and short clips after the fact.

The more important question is why this was allowed to happen at all.

UCI hosting documentation states that television production for the Junior Track World Championships is not compulsory, even though the UCI retains the electronic media rights.

That creates a difficult model for hosts already carrying the significant cost of staging an international championship.

This is not an argument for an Olympic-level broadcast operation.

It is an argument for something much simpler: every standalone UCI Junior Track World Championships should have a reliable live video feed.

If riders are travelling across the world to compete for rainbow jerseys, the world should be able to watch them.

Read the full analysis:

https://www.trackcycling.org/jworlds-tv.html

What should the minimum broadcast standard be for a UCI World Championship?

26/08/2026

We’d like to say a huge thank you to all the parents that helped with the live streaming of the Junior Worlds last week. We really hope we brought enough attention to the importance of a live stream even if it’s just off an iPad in the stands.

For these riders this is the pinnacle of their youth career and a huge moment to be proud of, not everyone’s family and friends can make the trip. To then not even be able to watch? Appalling…

We really hope that this doesn’t happen again but if it does people take initiative and work together to broadcast such an amazing moment in these young athlete’s careers.

To give context on how important this was to the community we will share some analytics with you, though out the days of racing we achieved
63,000 views
600+ followers
500+ Comments

I hope this puts it all into perspective, it wasn’t fancy, it barely had sound, but it was enough. In future we hope the event takes this into consideration.

Congratulations to all the participants and medalists, we wish you all the best.

Thank you from Minnie Collins and the Levin Cycling Club

Our very own Levin rider Minnie Collins - support crew - Junior Worlds Track Cycling - Belgium!!!
22/08/2026

Our very own Levin rider Minnie Collins - support crew - Junior Worlds Track Cycling - Belgium!!!

19/08/2026

Evening from Belgium!! It was a successful first day of streaming, we didn’t expect to have as wide of a reach as we did but super cool that we have!!
I’d just like to reiterate that these are just parents filming their children race on an IPad and we aren’t pros. We’ve got a few ideas to make the experience better over the next few days.
We are unable to have the audio on during the racing as the velodrome is playing copyright music which means Facebook mutes the sound and or will take down the live. However if the stream is going for podiums we will unmute for the anthems and announcements.

Hope you all enjoy the racing.

Thanks the NZ Team

19/08/2026

Hey team we will be live streaming the UCI Junior Track Cycling Championships here on the levin cycling club page. Please share around to all other cycling pages as there is no official live stream for the event.

We will do our best to capture the racing especially the NZL team.

Today we have
J19w scratch race qualifying - Mia Pepper
J19w Team pursuit qualifying - NZL Team
J19m Team pursuit Qualifying - NZL Team

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