Track World Champs 2011 Apeldoorn - NL

I wonder, can we lobby the UCI and IOC to ditch the omnium and reinstate the real races before it's too late? there's a whole year plus another world champs before the Olympics..

Decisions there are made in a distinctly top-down way ... and a long time in advance, and then never budged from, no matter how strong the counter-arguments might be. There's a gigantic amount of institutional inertia. In their view, changing a decision that they made years ago to be sure of what is going to happen at the next Olympics would create an unacceptable upheaval in planning the event. It's silly, but the Olympics are a very strange event and have a very strange organisational background.

I suspect it needs competition testing in these upcoming Games before they reconsider--assuming that it will turn out a completely unexciting dud, as people are suspecting now based on having seen it in other competitions. Alternatively, they might dig in against all reason and just carry on.

Would it be worth keeping if (which is very unlikely) cycling got more events and the classic disciplines were re-instated?