The Manchester round of the UCI Track World Cup will take placed between December 9 and 11. It's expected to be a quality competition, especially in the endurance stakes, where the world's top riders will be fighting it out for qualifying points ahead of the World Championships next year.
In the women's events, the star attraction will be Britain's Nicole Cooke, who will be racing the scratch and points races. Following her amazing display to destroy the field in the endurance omnium at Revolution 10, she is certainly on track for a podium place in both events and will provide tough competition for the international challengers. In the scratch race, World Championships bronze medalist Lyudmyla Vypyraylo will pose the greatest threat with Katherine Bates of Australia and Olympic silver medalist Belem Guerrero of Mexico the riders to beat in the points race. Cooke will be joined by either Kate Cullen or Nikki Harris from the GB squad with Rachel Heal to race the individual pursuit.
