What about the Cycling Federation in Mexico?
Mexico hopes to take advantage of Isaac’s impulse from the bull to grow cycling, a sport that lived in the shadow of disorganization in the last five years
While Isaac del Toro He got 14 victories this season in Europe and consolidated himself as one of the best pedalists in the world, in Mexico Administrative obstacles had in uncertainty to cycling. Just a few weeks ago, the International Federation (ICU, International Cycling Union) recognized a new Mexican Federation under the command of Bernardo de la Garza.
The history of national deficiencies began in 2009, when it went to preside over the Mexican Cycling Federation (FMC) Edgardo Hernández. The Oaxaca leader was entrenched for 13 years until he was unknown by the UCI due to “serious governance deficiencies.”
What was the origin of the conflict in Mexican cycling?
On May 7, 2022, an election assembly was held in Mexico City, which was the winner Gerardo Langaricafrom Jalisco. Little pleasure lasted because the UCIat the request of former cyclist Raúl Alcalá, he did not know that Steering Committee and delivered to the Mexican Olympic Committee (Com) The key to registering Mexican athletes in international events.
The assembly was endorsed at the time by the National Commission of Physical Culture and Sports (Conade) that directed Ana Guevarabut did not have the participation of the Mexican Olympic Committee (COM), chaired by Marijose Alcalá.
According to the General Law of Physical Culture and Sports, National Federations must be recognized by the International Federation, the COM and CONADE to work in order. Due to this conflict, the Cycling Federation could not be recognized and the Olympic Committee made registrations for international events and Paris 2024 Olympic Gameswhere Mexico He managed to carry the largest team of the last decades on track, route and mountain, but administratively without harmony.
The track competitions of the Olympic Games, where Bernardo de la Garza He was head of Mission, they were carried out on the outskirts of Paris, so the Mexican Cycling Federation paid a special hotel so that athletes did not have to come and go every day to the town of Athletes. The result is that Daniela Gaxiola He obtained a historic sixth place in the Keirin test.
That same year, Isaac del Toro competed for Mexico in the route World Cup held in Zurich, Switzerland, where it ended in position 12 in the Sub-23 category.
Today and within the framework of the Congress of the @Uci_cyclingthe Cycling Union of Mexico, which I am honored to preside, has been recognized as the entity that must conduct the work for the development of Mexico’s cycling under the umbrella of this international authority. pic.twitter.com/7amvrgaiao
– Bernardo de la Garza (@bernardodlgarza) SEPTEMBER 25, 2025
The path for the solution
With the change of government in Mexico There was readjustment of power and change in the ownership of the Conade, where Rommel Pacheco arrived instead of Ana Guevara. The com maintained his position of not recognizing Langarica and the UCI sent to Mexico an ultimatum to definitively reorganize this sport; In case of not doing so, athletes would begin to be marginalized from international competitions.
The Olympic Committee held an assembly at its facilities in Mexico City on June 2 to form a new civil association that was recognized by the UCI. With little assistance, the new body was called Mexico Cycling Union and Bernardo de la Garzaformer director of Conade, was elected as president.
De la Garza was on September 25, at the Annual Congress of the UCI In Kigali, Rwanda, where the Mexico Cycling Union as new National Federation. The former Mexican Cycling Federation was out of the system and now the new organism is responsible for national cycling.
“Cycling is a sport of great relevance and must always work on competitors and coaches so that there is certainty both in sports and administrative. This so that cycling continues to have great international results in favor of our country,” he said at that time Marijose AlcaláPresident of Com.
The Congress of the UCI It was carried out within the framework of the World Route Championship, where Isaac del Toro ended in the seventh position to achieve the best result in the history of Mexico, in addition to the fifth place in the counter -family test, the best participation for a Mexican cyclist.
