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 throughout the UCI Cyclocross World Championships in Tábor, the UCI formally appointed CPA Girls director Alessandra Cappellotto to characterize 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 can be key to skilled biking.
Though the governing physique has taken quite a few steps to help ladies’s biking, with the creation of the Girls’s WorldTour, minimal salaries, and different measures, ladies have complained that they’d no say within the adoption of recent guidelines such because the ban on the super-tuck and puppy-paws driving positions.
“I wish to welcome the brand new members of the Skilled Biking Council,” UCI President David Lappartient mentioned. “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 stage.
“To any extent further, its prerogatives will 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 identical assembly, the Administration Committee crafted a brand new aspect to its Excessive Climate Protocol, particularly coping with extraordinarily excessive temperatures in WorldTour, Girls’s WorldTour and Professional Sequence occasions in preparation for local weather change.
The Excessive Temperature Protocol will work in an analogous manner, with particular circumstances sparking an emergency assembly to place into place countermeasures equivalent to transferring staging to shaded areas, offering further 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 mentioned.
