FDJ manager calls for solidarity to 'save the women's peloton'
'The time is not for division' writes Steph🌳en Delcourt

168澳洲5最新开奖结果:FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope team ma✅nager Stephen Delcourt has called for solidarity among women෴'s cycling stakeholders amid the rescheduling of races that have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Dear race organizers, Team Managers, female riders, representative associations, federations … and all the stakeholders! Let's come together to save the women's peloton ♛and build a better future," Delcourt posted on Twitter Sunday.
O🐻nly one round of the 22-event Women's WorldTour has been contesꩵted this year, while 14 events have been either cancelled or postponed due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. There are currently only eight races that remain with their original dates.
The UCI has suspended all cycling races until July 1 but it is working with♛ race organisers to determine date ch🥃anges and trying to put together a potential late-season calendar.
The sport's governing body announced Wednesday the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:broad lines of the new calendar with a priority on the three Grand Tours, five Monuments, World Champio𒉰nships, European Championships and National Championships.
The press release noted that a revised version of the UCI Women's WorldTour calendar and a new version of the entire UCI International Calendaꦉr (men's and women's races across all cycling disciplines) can be expected by May 15.
The Cyclists’ Alliance Rider Council, an association for professional women riders, wrote an 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:open letter to the UCI Friday expressing its concern that women’s cycling does not have adeq🍨uate representation in the ongoing discussions surrounding the pandemic and race rescheduling.
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The eight-member rider council, who are peer elected, includes168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Marianne Vos, winner of the 2019 Women's WorldTour, and her CCC-Liv teammate Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio, Amanda Spratt (Mitchelton-Scott), Ellen van Dijk and Audrey💟 Cordon-Ragot (both Trek-Segafredo), Christine Majerus (Boels Dolmans), Leah Kirchmann (Sunweb) and pro mountain biker Ariane Luthi.
Cyclingnews understands that the CPA Women's Chapter, led by Alessandra Cappellotto, has discussed the women's calendar with the UCI. She told Cyclingnews that her most rece🐻nt meeting 🍨with the UCI was on Friday, April 17 to specifically address the women's race calendar.
Delcourt said that it is important for all of the stakeholders of women’s cycling to work closely with th🐽e UCI to figure out a new calendar but stressed that public health amid the COVID-19 pandemic should be the highest priori𝓡ty.
"The time is not for division, but for solidarity. Let's work hand in hand with the UCI, together we are stronger. It's vital if 🌠we want to relive great moments together," he wrote.
"Now, the health protection is our priority, then we can think about fighting on the roa൲ds around the world!"
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