The UCI introduced that it has, for the primary time in its historical past, added representatives from the ladies’s peloton to their Skilled Biking Council (PCC).
In 2023, the UCI Administration Committee determined so as to add stakeholders from ladies’s groups, riders and race organisations.
On the assembly through the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tábor, the UCI formally appointed CPA Ladies director Alessandra Cappellotto to symbolize riders, FDJ-Suez supervisor Stephen Delcourt and EF Training-Cannondale supervisor Esra Tromp for groups, Sonia Martinez because the consultant for the Vuelta a Burgos Feminas and Wim Van Herreweghe from the Tour of Flanders to talk for race organisers.
Ruth Edwards neé Winder was appointed to the UCI Athletes’ Fee. She returned to the WorldTour this season after a two-year absence with Human Powered Well being.
The PCC is concerned in drafting guidelines, drawing the WorldTour calendars, and different selections which are key to skilled biking.
Though the governing physique has taken quite a few steps to assist ladies’s biking, with the creation of the Ladies’s WorldTour, minimal salaries, and different measures, ladies have complained that that they had no say within the adoption of recent guidelines such because the ban on the super-tuck and puppy-paws driving positions.
“I want to welcome the brand new members of the Skilled Biking Council,” UCI President David Lappartient stated. “Their arrival signifies that the primary elements of girls’s highway biking at the moment are represented on this physique, which performs a central function within the improvement of the game on the highest degree.
“Any more, its prerogatives can even embody the ladies’s sector. This can be a nice step ahead for each the governance and improvement of girls’s biking.”
On the similar assembly, the Administration Committee crafted a brand new aspect to its Excessive Climate Protocol, particularly coping with extraordinarily excessive temperatures in WorldTour, Ladies’s WorldTour and Professional Collection occasions in preparation for local weather change.
The Excessive Temperature Protocol will work in an analogous approach, with particular situations sparking an emergency assembly to place into place countermeasures reminiscent of shifting staging to shaded areas, offering extra water and ice from impartial motorbikes, or altering begin instances.
“I’m additionally delighted with the brand new measures taken, in collaboration with our stakeholders, to guard the well being and security of riders with our new Excessive Temperature Protocol,” Lappartient stated.
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