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Vincent De Haitre was getting dressed for a bike ride on the morning of March 22 when he got a phone call explaining that he may have reached a fork in the road of achieving two of his longtime athletic goals.

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The Cumberland native’s Cycling Canada coach was on the other end of the line in the U.K., where he was stuck. Because of the fast-escalating fallout following the novel coronavirus, he struggling to find a flight back to Canada. He had more bad news for De Haitre: Canada had withdrawn from Tokyo Olympic.

Two days later, the upcoming Olympic 2020 Games were postponed until 2021. The global pandemic forced the entire sporting world into hibernation, sending athletes aloof from their typical role as distractors, while much of the world hunkered down at home.

For De Haïtre a 26-year-old dual-sport athlete whose personal plans included appearing in both the Summer Games as a track cyclist and the 2022 Winter Olympic Games as a speed skater the postponement of the Tokyo Olympic Games makes for a dilemma.

There was a lot to think about, but De Haitre decided to keep his dual-sport Olympic goals intact. Competing in two Olympic sports less than seven months apart risks spreading himself too thin, but De Haitre and his coaches have drawn up a plan to keep his body in shape for both the oval and the ice. Fortunately, the physical demands of cycling and skating are similar, and training for the latter already involves a fair amount of time on the bike.

“Right now, I’m on 90 percent of my speed skating program and then whenever I’m on the bike I kind of ride as if I was still a cyclist, which means slightly different training zones and different technical focuses,” De Haitre told the Sports page in early June.

Now in Calgary with the skating team, De Haitre is training on his own most of the time, although peeled back pandemic protocols are starting to allow for more group sessions.

“We still have to stay apart from each other and we can’t share equipment, but at least now we’re getting some visual feedback from the coaches,” said the 3-time Ottawa Sports Awards male athlete of the year.

De Haitre has already proven he can push boundaries on the bike. At February’s Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin, he set a Canadian record for the 1 km time trial at sea level, placing 4th in the world. The Ottawa Bicycle Club product was also an alternate for the Canadian team pursuit squad that placed 12th but comfortably clinched one of the eight available Olympic 2020 berths.

With two Winter Olympics under his belt by age 23, De Haitre has proved to be one of the world’s best in speed skating too. In 2017, the Gloucester Concordes athlete was a World Championships silver medalist and ranked #2 overall for the men’s 1,000 m on the World Cup circuit.

Competing in both Tokyo Olympic 2021 and Beijing 2022 would put De Haitre in a rare company. In 1968 back when Winter and Summer Games were each held in the same year Canadian athlete Robert Boucher competed in cycling and speed skating 238 days apart. De Haitre is on track to break that benchmark with just 181 days of separation between games.

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The UCI has unveiled challenging, hilly courses for both the men’s and women’s elite races at the Olympic 2020 Games to be held in Tokyo, Japan. Both of the races will start on the outskirts of Tokyo Olympic before working their way west towards Mount Fuji, finishing in the Fuji International Speedway race track.

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Like the 2016 course in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tokyo Olympic will suit fast-finishing climbers and punchers as the men’s and women’s races cover five and two categorized climbs respectively.

The men’s race will distance 234km with a problematic 4,865m of promotion improvement en route. The first summit of the day, Doushi Road, will come after 80km quickly followed by the shorter climb of Kagosaka Pass. The race will then arrive at the ‘Mount Fuji circuit’ after 110km drumming the day’s biggest test, the Fuji Sanroku climb (14.3km, 6%), which will take the provisos up to 1,451m above sea level. 

After a 15km descent and a further 40km of rolling roads, the race will pass through the Speedway circuit before hitting its final two climbs, the Mikuni Pass (6.5km at 10.6%) and Kagosaka Pass, both of which come in the final 35km of racing.

The women’s race will be 137km and misses out climbing Mount Fuji, instead of tackling the Doushi Road and Kagosaka Pass, with the last climb 40km away from the finish at the race track. However, the women’s race will still suit those able to climb as it accumulates 2,692m of the vertical height along the course.

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Olympic 2020 qualification for Summer Games in four International Cycling Union (UCI) disciplines is set to be retroactively stopped as of March 3 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The UCI said it would ask the International Olympic Committee for qualification in mountain biking, BMX racing, BMX freestyle, and Para-cycling road to conclude from that date.

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It would mean all athletes who are in a qualification spot would be automatically awarded an Olympic 2020 berth, providing the IOC and the IPC agree to the request. In a statement, the UCI said it had made the decision “to preserve sporting equity for the athletes” and claimed continuing with the process in the four disciplines would result in “unfairness between nations”.

The UCI added that between 60 and 75 percent of the qualifying events in the four sports had already been completed. The date was chosen because no nation had been prevented from traveling to events before March 3. The request has been presented to the IOC, in order to allow publication of the Olympic 2020 rankings and quotas of the remaining disciplines as soon as possible.

Olympic 2020 qualification is also finished in the road, track, and para-cycling track. The virus, which has so far killed more than 8,600 people and infected in excess of 274,000 worldwide, has wreaked havoc on the international sports calendar.

Many events such as World Championships have been postponed or canceled amid travel restrictions and Government bans on competitions involving a certain number of partakers. The UCI has also postponed classification rankings on the international calendar around the world until at least 3rd April.

Faced with this extraordinary and changing situation we must adapt and take necessary measures to guarantee, as far as possible, the security of people at our events as well as sporting equity. The challenges we face in light of the current situation require all members of the cycling family and of the Olympic 2020 movement to be innovative, strong, and united.

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