The UCI has allowed members of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Zaaf women's team to change teams with immediate effect after investigating allegations that the team has not pai🐟d riders. The team already lost Audrey Cordon-Ragot, who resigned earlier this month before 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:joining Human Powered Health ahead of Paris-Roubaix.

“Since the beginning of the year, I was not paid, nor have I been reimbursed for my travel expenses. Beyond the financial aspect, the conditions in which we were evolving were really not worthy of a professional team. I could not continue under these conditions,” Cordon-Ragot told Le Télégramme last week.

Normally riders would be unable to change teams until the official mid-season transfer window of June 1, but the UCI made an exception telling Cyclingnews, "The UCI sha🍌ll consider requests for authorisation to register with a new team before the next registration period in case a rider had manifest and compelling reasons for terminating their contractual relationship with their previous team."&nb🎃sp;

The Zaaf team is managed by owner Riad Belatreche, who named the team after his granꦛdfather Abdel-Kader Zaaf, who raced in the 1950s. After racing as a club in 2022, the team upgraded to a UCI Continental team this season and scooped up Cordon-Ragot, along with Maggie Coles-Lyste𝄹r and Heidi Franz, all of whom were to sign with a few French team planned by former B&B Hotels manager Jérôme Pineau.

The Zaaf Cycling Team submitted their bank guarantee to the UCI but the Spanish Cycling Federation confirmed to Cyclingnews t❀hat they wiꦍll only seek to draw from the bank guarantee if riders are not reimbursed fully by March 31, 2024.

Riders are still expecting to race 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:La Vuelta Femenina, the women's Vuelta a🍃 Espa♕ña, on May 1. reported that some of the riders received part of their back pay owed.

Cyclingnews has contacted the Zaaf Cy🔜cling Team to clarify the team's financial situation, along with the allegations that it has not paid some riders and staff and allegations of a lack of professionalism, but the team has not yet responded.