Page "Union Cycliste Internationale" Paragraph 8

The UCI organises cycling's world championships, administration of which it gives to member nations.

The first championships were on the road and on the track.

They were allocated originally to member nations in turn, on condition the country was deemed competent and that it could guarantee ticket sales.

A nation given a championship or series of championships was required to pay the UCI 30 per cent of ticket receipts from the track and 10 per cent from the road.

Of this, the UCI kept 30 per cent and gave the rest to competing nations in proportion to the number of events in which it competed.

The highest gate money in this pre-war era was 600 000 francs in Paris in 1903.