OLYMPICS events such as cycling has taken a massive hit this week.

Australia’s cycling bosses have condemned the changes and have already informed its aspiring medallists for bad news come the 2012 London Olympics – particularly the male athletes.

National cycling head Shayne Bannan said he expected the individual pursuits, points raes and men’s madision will be scrapped but that women will have three more events to enter.

The sudden changes which would see more sprinting and less endurances races on the track have also been condemned internationally.

”We’ve had our little bit of a whinge and kicked the dog and whatever, but the decision is what it is,” Bannan told The Age newspaper this week.

”The madison, the individual pursuit and the points score won’t be at the Olympic Games in London, it will be replaced by the women’s team sprint, the women’s keirin, the women’s team pursuit and the women’s and men’s omnium. It’s fantastic for sprint cycling and it’s fantastic for women’s cycling, so there are real positives and pluses there. But, I’m not in agreeance with taking events out and replacing them. The individual pursuit and points score, and the individual pursuit in particular, is a traditional Olympic Games event so that will be a sad decision for track endurance cycling.”

It’s a massive blow to young Aussie cyclists such as Cameron Meyer and Leigh Howard.