January 31/07 (Ottawa, ON) – The Canadian Cycling Association (CCA) is pleased to announce that Canada’s Wayne Pomario has been appointed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as chief commissaire/president for the track cycling events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

"I am very happy to be appointed as chief commissaire and president," said Wayne Pomario, current chair of the CCA Officials Committee and president of Cycling British Columbia. "It is a great honor and although I have been working in numerous international events, I am very grateful to the UCI for having confidence in my ability to do the job."

Pomario has been a UCI International Commissaire since 1997, when he arrived in Canada from native South Africa, where he used to race road cycling - he was South African National Champion in Individual Time Trial in 1993. Pomario has also been involved in track cycling event organization for many years, and he started to work in South Africa as an official, soon becoming an international expert in track cycling. He is now an international commissaire in road, track and cyclo-cross, and has worked in all those disciplines in major international competition.

The track events will take place in Beijing (CHN) on August 15-19, 2008. In the meantime, Pomario has also been appointed by the UCI as president of the Commissaires Panel for a test event which will take place in 2007.