{"id":21428,"date":"2013-11-21T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/11\/21\/greg-minnaar-and-william-newman-to-sit-on-uci-commisions-r1097\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:15:55","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:15:55","slug":"greg-minnaar-and-william-newman-to-sit-on-uci-commisions-r1097","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/greg-minnaar-and-william-newman-to-sit-on-uci-commisions-r1097\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Minnaar and William Newman to sit on UCI Commisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling South Africa\u2019s President William Newman and three-time Downhill World Champion Greg Minnaar have been appointed as members of the International Cycling Union\u2019s (UCI) Commission for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-41808-0-32475800-1385019896.png\" data-fileid=\"291314\" data-fileext=\"png\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"291314\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-41808-0-32475800-1385019896.png\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-41808-0-32475800-1385019896.png\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Members of 18 commissions of the UCI have been appointed. Newman will sit on the UCI Track Commission, while Minnaar sits on the UCI Athlete\u2019s Commission as a Mountain Bike Representative.<\/p>\n<p>Mountain biking stalwart and neighbour to South Africa, Mannie Heymans from Namibia, will sit on the UCI Mountain Bike Commission.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UCI press announcement, in an unprecedented decision in the organisation\u2019s history, at least one woman will sit on each of the commissions, newly designated under the Presidency of Brian Cookson.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement also revealed that \u201cthree new commissions have been established: the Women\u2019s Commission, the International Development and National Federations\u2019 Commission, and a Constitutional Review Panel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Cycling for All Commission has been separated into two bodies: the \u201cMass Participation Events\u201d and \u201cAdvocacy\/Cyclist\u2019s Rights\u201d Commissions. The UCI means to place particular emphasis on the development of these two areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>UCI President Brian Cookson said: \u201cI am delighted by this announcement, which helps reinforce the presence of women in cycling. It was one of the priorities of my mandate along with the international development of cycling and the reform of the governance of the UCI. Today we continue working to ensure our pledges are met.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling South Africa\u2019s President William Newman and three-time Downhill World Champion Greg Minnaar have been appointed as members of the International Cycling Union\u2019s (UCI) Commission for 2014. Members of 18 commissions of the UCI have been appointed. Newman will sit on the UCI Track Commission, while Minnaar sits on the UCI Athlete\u2019s Commission as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[675,93,755],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-greg-minnaar","tag-uci","tag-william-newman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21428"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}