A dispute that will make a lot of them speak, and which risks tainting and distorting the Female Romandie Tour 2025 (August 15-17)! While the stages race of Women's Worldtour begins this Friday noon with an individual time trial between Huémoz and Villars-sur-Ollon, six major female teams on the fifteen present at the start were disqualified from the race following a conflict with The International Cycling Union (UCI). If this decision remains temporary and can evolve in the coming minutes according to the evolution of discussions still in progress, the teams Lidl-Trek, Canyon SRAM, EF Education-Oatly, AG Insurance Soudal, Visma-Lease a Bike et Team Picnic PostNL are currently put out of race before the 4.4 km time, following a disagreement with theUCI concerning the new safety rules tested in French -speaking and relating to the use of monitoring systems and geolocation GPS of runners during the race, the latter having obviously been imposed without prior consultation.
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Discord between teams and the UCI on the use of the new GPS for safety system
A confused and harmful situation on a subject as important as security, and which risks putting a serious blow to the competitiveness of the Swiss test, already deprived of a Demi full ring (FDJ-Suez) sick and who would also lose the other big favorite and headliner Kasia Niewiadom-Phinney (CANYON//SRAM zondacrypto) If things remained like this. It seems that the dispute has focused on the use of the new security monitoring system, theUCI having imposed new rules on teams without real consultation. The teams then tried to find a compromise with the international body and asked him to designate a runner from each team to use the equipment. However, the UCI refused and then demanded that the teams themselves install technology on their bikes.
The Federation wishes to make the teams responsible for the new follow -up system. If, for example, the aircraft falls from a bicycle and causes an accident, the teams would be held responsible. There is also a commercial aspect: the teams invest in Velon For years. The system that the UCI now wishes to use would be very similar. The Federation would insist on using its system, but the teams fear not obtaining a return on investment, which would mean years of investment wasted in Velon. Case to follow …
