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 of 4.4 km between Huemoz and Villars-sur-Ollon, several major teams of the female peloton on the fifteen present at the start were disqualified from the race following a conflict with The International Cycling Union (UCI)as revealed by the journalist Daniel Benson in the morning. Despite negotiations that lasted until the end, it was confirmed that the four teams Lidl-Trek, Canyon SRAM, EF Education-Oatly, Visma-Lease a Bike et Team Picnic PostNL were well put out of the race, their runners not aligning on this time. A situation that would be linked to a disagreement with theUCI Regarding the new safety rules and the use of GPS monitoring and geolocation systems of runners during the race, a test carried out in Romandie upstream of World championships.
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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.
