Fédération Française de Cyclisme

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Fédération Française de Cyclisme
(FFC)
Logo-FFC.svg
purpose Sports association
Chair: Michel Callot
Establishment date: 1881
Number of members: 2590 clubs
119,218 licensed drivers
(as of 2014)
Seat : Montigny-le-Bretonneux
Website: ffc

The Fédération Française de Cyclisme (FFC) is the French cycling association. The FFC is a member of the World Cycling Federation UCI and the European Cycling Federation UEC .

history

Meeting of the UVF in 1919

As the predecessor of the FFC, the Union Vélocipédique Française (UVF) was founded on February 6, 1881 in the Parisian Café Le Marengo . These representatives from ten cycling clubs decided on a national championship on the same day (a ten-kilometer race). Professional drivers were already allowed in this first race. The first president was the Parisian Paul Devilliers. On December 20, 1940, the UVF was fundamentally reformed and renamed the FFC.

Since 2014, the FFC has been based in the Vélodrome National in Montigny-le-Bretonneux , around 35 kilometers from Paris.

The Sulpice case

In March 2008, the FFC was sentenced by a French court to pay 1.35 million euros in damages to track cyclist Patrice Sulpice . Sulpice fell during a training session during the 1995 UCI Track World Championships in Bogotá and has been in a wheelchair ever since. This court ruling brought the FFC to the brink of insolvency.

President

President of the FFC since 2017: Michel Callot
David Lappartient was President of the FFC from 2009-2017

Publications

The association published a weekly newspaper under the title "La France Cycliste" as the official organ of the association until the 1980s .

Individual evidence

  1. Pour un cyclisme français conquérant. Plan fédéral 2014–2017. (No longer available online.) FFC, archived from the original on March 3, 2016 ; accessed on November 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ffc.fr
  2. Franse wielerbond bijna failliet on wielerupdate.nl v. June 27, 2007 (Dutch)