The Secret Pro: It’s time rider safety was taken seriously
The Secret Pro has had enough of the 'lip-service' approach to safety and wants actual change.
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is the international governing body for the sport of cycling, based in Switzerland. It oversees world championships for road, mountain bike, track, and cyclocross disciplines, sanctions all major international competitions, and tabulates points rankings for the disciplines throughout the season, among other responsibilities.
The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) is the international governing body for the sport of cycling, based in Switzerland. It oversees world championships for road, mountain bike, track, and cyclocross disciplines, sanctions all major international competitions, and tabulates points rankings for the disciplines throughout the season, among other responsibilities.
The Secret Pro has had enough of the 'lip-service' approach to safety and wants actual change.
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Germany won the women's team sprint while the Dutch won its fourth straight title in men's sprint in the first day of racing in Roubaix.
An industrial drone company based in Spain will back the Italian team for the next four seasons.
Top women's league will grow to 14, while Peter Sagan will have to earn his ticket to the Tour de France in 2022.
Backers are hoping inaugural five-round series will pump new energy into track cycling.
Israel Start-Up Nation owner Sylvan Adams and UCI played key roles in helping young female Afghan cyclists escape the clutches of the Taliban.
The UCI, Israel Start-Up Nation co-owner Sylvan Adams, and others worked together to help evacuate people from Afghanistan.
African-registered team still looking secure its sponsors for 2022, but UCI deadlines force them to release riders from contracts.
The peloton lacks development, and a U23 race would help close the gap between juniors and elites.
David Lappartient was re-elected to a four-year term as UCI president during the UCI Congress while junior and U23 riders endured endless crashes.
The world championships provide the dramatic backdrop to release decisions often made behind closed doors months before.
A UCI-sanctioned gravel racing circuit and world championship event are coming next year.
Elite racers like Lauren Stephens, Ian Boswell and race organizers like Amy Charity, Kimo Seymour, and Amanda Nauman weigh in on UCI's involvement in gravel.
COVID-19 rules to stay in place until February, and UCI orders more studies on use of ketones.
The booming gravel discipline will see its first UCI-sanctioned race series and rainbow jersey next season.
If the UCI decides this week to award the 2025 World Championships to Rwanda, will it constitute a bold step forward in cycling’s internationalization, finally putting sub-Saharan Africa squarely in the sport’s limelight, or will it be a turn towards sportswashing?
Here's the news making headlines on Thursday, September 16.
For better or worse? The absence of race radios in Olympic competition shaped the outcome of the women's road race in a big way.
Despite rumors of illicit motorized assistance at the Tour de France, riders say it's highly unlikely.
Swiss newspaper cites unnamed riders in the peloton saying that rear hubs from several top teams are making 'strange noises' and raised the specter of 'motor-doping'
New detection methods for 'technological fraud' will be rolled out at the Tokyo Olympic Games for track, road and mountain bike disciplines.
The Frenchman's re-election is now a formality.
Marc Bracke was previously found guilty of violating the UCI Code of Ethics after two riders accused him of sexual harassment.
The UCI's statement on Jan-Willem Van Schip's disqualification paints a very different story to that of Beat Cycling's.
Jan-Willem van Schip ejected by UCI after his Speeco Aero Breakaway bars ruled to break 'forearms on bars' ban.
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10-day Giro Rosa returns to the lineup, as well as a six-day Battle of the North.
The UCI plans for a working group to review the regulation before the start of the Tour de France.
Remember all that talk of Ineos wheels in the time trial? Well the UCI didn't like them and have moved to ban the end caps on the Aerocoach wheels.
One of the innovators of the now-banned 'super tuck' position crashes in bizarre, over-the-bars mishap.
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Get the latest from our anonymous insider, The Secret Pro.
The UCI and WADA presidents had tense e-mail exchanges over the case.
Soigneurs have become janitors, fans now crowd together to chase water bottles, and everyone is grumpy about the 'super tuck' ban.
Race jury disqualifies Richard Carapaz for using banned 'super-tuck' position during Sunday's Liège-Bastogne-Liège.
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Race organizer Flanders Classics is considering restricting entry to litter zones if they become unsafe as fans try to get bottles from riders.
Here's what's making headlines on Thursday, April 15.
Changes come in wake of outcry following disqualification of Michael Schär at the Tour of Flanders for throwing bottle.
Kiwi climber rails against governing body's strict new rules after his own memorable moments giving and receiving bottles at bike races.
Here's what's making the headlines on Wednesday, April 7.
The ability to give bottles to fans makes cycling special, pros argue.
Is cycling shooting itself in the foot with its new rules against tossing water bottles, or doing the right thing? We look at both sides of the debate.
Bracke was found guilty of violating the UCI Code of Ethics in October.
Old habits prove hard to change for pros as UCI commissaires eject Michael Schär for illegal bottle toss.
With the supertuck ban finally having kicked in, we take a trip down memory lane.
Supertucks, hugs, and now victory celebrations?
COVID-19 enforcement robots will have a lasting role in the 2021 season, according to a UCI announcement overnight.
Dwars door Vlaanderen will be the last time riders can legally use controversial descending position.
Here's what's making headlines on Tuesday, March 30.
The Disciplinary Commission is now tasked with determining Bouhanni's punishment.
Jake Stewart calls out Frenchman for wayward move that overshadowed Elia Viviani's victory.
New calendar dates awarded to UCI WorldTour events seeking to be on the current year's calendar.
The young Briton was lucky to avoid serious injury.
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Dr. Xavier Bigard, the UCI's medical officer, believes the general public could return to bike races over the summer.
Former world champion urges colleagues to become more involved, while Wellens admits he will miss TT position in breakaways.
During stage races the UCI will dock a rider 30 seconds for a first offense and two minutes for a second. A third offense brings expulsion.
The former team manager will not be allowed to work in cycling until the end of December 2022.
The UCI Disciplinary Commission has levied a nearly three-year ban on the Belgian director Patrick Van Gansen.
The UCI says that 38 total events have been called off, with an additional 24 requesting new dates for 2021.
Several riders were angered by the presence of unmarked obstacles in the chaotic finale at Thursday's stage of the Tour de la Provence.
Most pros are OK with the ban but see more meaningful ways to make the sport safer - and more equitable.
Pro cyclists react on social media to forthcoming body-positions rules.
First the super tuck, and now the popular breakaway position get the ax from the UCI, starting April 1.
The UCI plans to phase out the controversial — if unquestionably popular — descending position. We debate the merits of the 'super tuck.'
The UCI will start enforcing a ban on the "super tuck" start in April.
The UCI approved new rules that officials believe will make race finish lines safer, six months after a crash at the Tour of Poland called into question the overall safety of sprint finishes.
A wider reach on the ban on glucocorticoids will begin in 2022.
Despite some short-term hiccups, UCI president hopeful 2021 racing season will not require major rescheduling.
The partnership between the Japanese component giant and the governing body for cycling first started in 1999.
Still no word from key stakeholders as more races forced to postpone or cancel events.
MPCC cautions that fewer controls due to COVID complications could be factor in drop in doping cases in 2020.
The 2021 Track Worlds host will offer free COVID-19 vaccines to all athletes – despite denying the existence of COVID in the country.