The peloton, groups and organisations will see a number of recent modifications geared toward addressing a number of the main points regarding skilled street biking round sustainability, SafeR, monetary equity, and the restructuring of ladies’s biking groups all mentioned among the many sport’s stakeholders on the current annual UCI Girls’s WorldTour and UCI WorldTour Seminar held from November 25-26 in Good, France.
The main stakeholders in attendance on the two-day seminar included UCI President David Lappartient, President of the Affiliation Internationale des Groupes Cyclistes Professionnels Brent Copeland, the President of the Affiliation Internationale des Organisateurs de Programs Cyclistes Christian Prudhomme, the President of the Cyclistes Professionnels Associés Adam Hansen, CPA Girls’s Supervisor Alessandra Cappellotto, and President of the Skilled Biking Council Tom Van Damme.
The seminar started with medical updates and the latest information surrounding the Excessive-Temperature Protocol, being pregnant in girls’s biking, and the results on the efficiency of repeated carbon monoxide inhalation.
As well as, it included an replace on the UCI’s renewed struggle in opposition to technological fraud led by Nick Raudenski, Head of the Battle In opposition to Technological Fraud, who goals to “develop confidential sources and develop actionable intelligence” to enhance the programme’s effectiveness, in response to the press launch.
The main focus then shifted to the construction of ladies’s biking, which can see the introduction of the UCI Girls’s ProTeams in 2025. The three tiers of groups – WorldTeams, ProTeams and Continental Groups – will deliver the construction of ladies’s skilled groups consistent with the boys’s groups.
The UCI has confirmed in its press launch that seven girls’s groups have already utilized for UCI Girls’s ProTeam standing for the primary yr and a few further groups have already expressed their want to be part of this stage in 2026.
The discussions additionally included registration of occasions on the UCI WorldTour Calendar and the rules of monetary equity for groups for 2026-2028, that are at the moment being thought-about by a working group appointed by the Skilled Biking Council.
One other main dialogue addressed issues surrounding local weather change and the UCI highlighted the following steps of a sustainability technique for skilled biking, which incorporates launching the Skilled Biking Local weather Motion Working Group.
The brand new working group consists of representatives of UCI Groups, riders, organisers and sponsors, and on the seminar, the UCI supplied an outline of its function and imaginative and prescient. Members of the brand new working group held a roundtable dialogue concerning the “significance of sustainability for biking and the game’s function in serving to sort out the local weather disaster,” in response to the press launch.
The seminar concluded with discussions between members of SafeR, a construction devoted to security in males’s and ladies’s street biking that additionally brings collectively organisers, groups, riders and the UCI. The game governing physique confirmed that an official replace on SafeR and its work to enhance rider security together with an motion plan for 2025 can be supplied at the start of subsequent season.
