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Stephen Farrand

'It clearly influenced and distorted the race' – Roger Kluge hits out at UCI track officials after Madison points mix-up at World Championships

Germany's #21 Moritz Augenstein (L) and #22 Roger Kluge compete in the men's madison 50km event final at the 2025 UCI Track World Championships, in the Penalolen Velodrome in Santiago, on October 26, 2025. (Photo by Javier TORRES / AFP).

Roger Kluge has publicly criticised the UCI commissaires at the recent Track World Championships after an apparent delay in updating the points score during the men's Madison led to Germany letting Denmark ride away to take the bronze medal.

Thirty-nine-year-old Kluge, who is a former Olympic medalist, posted a video and a long text to Instagram to highlight what he believes was the UCI commissaires' "misconduct".

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