A new regulation has just been approved for participation in the three great tours: Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a España. The organizers will no longer be able to invite the teams they want outside of the compulsory licenses carried by the WorldTour squads and the two best ProTeams of the previous year. This will no longer be the case from 2024. Next year, the invited teams must qualify in the top 50
The organizers of the Tour de France revealed that the 2024 edition, because of the Paris Olympic Games, will end in Nice with a time trial stage in the streets of the Mediterranean city, which had not happened since 1989 when the American Greg Lemond gave the return to the general classification in the final time trial ahead of the Frenchman Laurent Fignon, by only eight seconds. The 111th edition, forced to move its celebration
Cuban Arlenis Sierra, from the Movistar team and the best cyclist in the Americas in the world road ranking, secured fifth place in the Danilith Nokere Koerse one-day race, in Belgium, belonging to the elite female category of the International Cycling Union (UCI). ). Sierra once again showed her class a few hours after returning from Cuba, as she discussed the final sprint and crossed the finish line just 29 seconds behind the winner, the
14 March, 2023
Richard Carapaz opens season with Milano-Torino
The Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz opens his European season this Wednesday with the participation in the Milano-Torino, where he will race for the first time in Europe with his new team, the American EF Education-EasyPost, with which he will wear his champion’s jersey national. It will be the first test of the Carchense in the WorldTour with his new jersey, which will have the national tricolor after consecrating himself national road champion in February, a jersey
This Tuesday will begin the competitions of the second stop of the 2023 UCI Nations Cup, which will take place at the Cairo International Velodrome, in Egypt, with the participation of cyclists from 50 countries and eight brand teams. In the case of Colombia, one of the ten delegations from America that will be in the event, traveled to the Egyptian capital with four runners from the national track team, who will seek to continue
With the aim of achieving parity in the Paris Olympic Games, it has been arranged that disciplines such as road or MTB have to significantly reduce their presence in the next event of the five rings, scheduled for the summer of 2024. Specifically, on the road there will be 88 men and as many women, reducing to a maximum of four cyclists for the five best countries, while in the mountains the number will be
12 March, 2023
Miguel Ángel ‘Superman’ López and Lilibeth Chacón, champions of the Tour of Tolima 2023.
After five days and without great surprises for the specialists, the Colombian Miguel Ángel “Superman” López and the Venezuelan Lilibeth Chacón flew high and were crowned champions in the Tour of Tolima 2023; concluded this Sunday March 12, with partial victories for Johan Colón and Nicoll García. The formidable Boyacán router Miguel Ángel López (Team Medellín-EPM) was crowned champion of the cycling tournament, after maintaining the lead in the fifth and last fraction, a short
One of the priorities of the UCI is that all cyclists and countries have fair and equitable access to sports equipment, with equal conditions for all competitors. These regulatory obligations are of particular importance within track cycling, and with the aim of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. The material subject to regulation are frames, forks, seat post, front and rear wheels, handlebars, extensions, clothing (overalls, underwear, gloves, socks and boot covers) and helmets. To this
11 March, 2023
In the queen stage of the Tour of Tolima, Chacón and “Superman” López repeated their triumphs
The queen stage of the Tour of Colombia, both male and female, ended in the heights of Santa Isabel and, in the midst of the mist, the Venezuelan Lilibeth Chacón and the Colombian Miguel Ángel López won, wearing the jersey of the leaders of the general classification, to a fraction for the end of the race. Cold, humidity and fog accompanied the closing of the fourth stage of the Tour of Tolima, which for both
10 March, 2023
Tickets for the track and freestyle cycling of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games are sold out
Tickets for the disciplines of climbing and freestyle were sold out the same day they went on sale for the next Olympic Games in Paris 2024. Behind them were, by levels of acceptance: fencing, judo, breaking and track cycling , which put up the SOLD OUT sign a few days after starting this long-awaited procedure. The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have so far sold 3.3 million tickets and record numbers are expected to be broken,