The UCI has confirmed eight returning teams that have applied to register as Women's WorldTeams. SD Worx – currently known as 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Boels Dolmans – i🐎s the only new team that has applied for both a licence and registrati𓂃on, bringing the total number of top-tier teams to nine in 2021.
Women's professional cycling underwent reforms that were implemented at the beginning of the 2020 season. P👍art of those reforms included the introduction of a new two-tier team system – WorldTeams and Continental Teams.
WorldTeam licences come with heightened financial req🔴uirements, which includes paying riders a minimum sal🐽ary, and providing health and social benefits.
Last year, a maximum of eight teams were granted top-tier licences: A﷽lè BTC Ljubljana, Canyon-Sram, FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope, Mitchelton-Scott, CCC-Liv, Movistar Team Women, Team Sunweb and Trek-Segafredo.
Boels Dolmans had been ranked the number one team in the worl💃d for five consecutive seasons, however, they did not meet the full range of requirements to secure a WorldTeam licence after reaching the end of their contracts with title sponsors 🌸Boels Rental and Dolmans Landscaping.
The team successfully found a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:long-term replacement sponsor in SD Worx that will take the team through 2024, and which fulfilled the financial requirements of moving up to a WꦺorldTeam licence next year.
The UCI has set out annual goals for the two-tier teams system, aiming to add new teams to the highest level each season. Licences awarded🐈 between 2020 and 2023 are valid for decreasing periods of time - validity of four years for those issued in 2020, and then three years in 2021, and two years in 2022.
Eight teams made up the top-tier in 2020, a maximum of 12 licences were available for 2021 and 🐽a maximum of 15 available for 2022.
From 2024 and onward, according to the UCI website, the duration of licences will then be determined by the UCI Women’s WorldTeams ranking: validity of four years for the top five teams in the ranking, three years for the teams ranked 6 toꦐ 10, and two years for the teams ranked 11 to 15.
Notable name changes among the applicants are CCC-Liv, which is🐼 changing to Liv Racing, and Mitchelton-Scott, which is changing to Greenedge Cycling, the name of the team's management company.
CCC-Li🍌v released a statement following the UCI's teams announcement saying, "CCC will no longer be a head sponsor next season, but will remain involved as a partner."
The Polish footwear company CCC decided to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:end its sponsorship of the men’s WorldTour team at the end of this year after being hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic an🐷d its economic impacts.
Although a spokesperson for the women’s team reiterated that the two teams are separate entities and under different contract agreements with CCC, it now appears that the company will not remain as a title sponsor of the women's team either. The team has always been clear that it aimed to ⛎168澳洲5最新开奖结果:continue in the sport at the highest level.
Women's WorldTour applicants for 2021
Team SD Worx
Alè BTC Ljubljana Cipollini
Canyon-Sram Racing
FDJ Nouvelle-Aquitaine Futuroscope
Greenedge Cycling
Liv Racing
Movistar Team Women
Team Sunweb
Trek-Segafredo
