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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Marianne Vos (Rabo Liv) applauded the UCI's decision to implement the new Women's WorldTour, the 17-round series that recently wrapped up with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Megan Guarnier (Boels Dolmans) 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:winning the first-ever title. Despite its success, the Dutchwoman believes the ꧃series has some impr🐈ovements to make in the years to come.

"It was necessary to come up with the Women's WorldTour to further develop the racing, teams and structure for riders," Vos told Cyclingnews. "The WorldTour came, but there are no big changes made, yet, because there are no rul꧙es regarding the series,🌠 yet."

The UCI announced the start of the new series late last year to include 17 of the best one-day and stage races around the world. It replaced the 10-round World Cup that consisted only of one-day events. For the Women's WorldTour, organisers were 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:obliged to invite the top 20 teams to one-day races and the top 15 teams fo𒁃r stage races, among other rules.

More rules, tiered women's teams and tougher qualifications for event organizers

UCI Vice President Tracey Gaudry gave the Women's WorldTour series a top grade during its halfway point in June, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:in an interview with Cyclingnews. The series brought better promotion to women's cycling, with video highlights, social media and press packages, which was a priority, and those aspects will cont🐈inue to improve in the coming years.

Vos was involved with the UCI Women's Commission during their talks of creating the Women's WorldTour, and she currently sits on the UCI R𓆏oa෴d Commission and the UCI Athletes Commission, where she voices her concerns about women's cycling.

Vos is convinced that there is more work to be done to improve the structure of the Wom🌟en's WorldTour for next season, and for seasons to follow.

"[The UCI] will need to implement rules for the Women's WorldTourꦫ in the coming years, and that will make the biggest change. But it has been a good step so far, and it's not easy to come up with all those new rules all at once because organisations will struggle, teams will disappear, and that could harm women's cycliಞng," Vos said.

"I hope in the coming years the UCI will make some strong statements and strong regulations that will help improve professionalisation of w﷽omen's cycling."

Gaudry suggested that the next step in creating a more competitive and professional Women's ﷽WorldTour is to create a tiered team system, similar to the men's divisions; WorldTour, Pro Continental and Continental. She noted that there are work🅰ing groups currently in place to discuss and implement the progress of the women's racing structure.

Women's teams are currently under no obligation to offer minimum wages to their contracted athletes, and although Vos believes this needs to change, she also believes there are other aspects of w🐠omen's cycling that need improvement first.

She agrees with Gaudry that creating a tiered team system first makes the most sense, and that minimum wage obligations sho𝓰uld follow. Also, Vos believes that events and organisers should be held to the same high standards befꦦore being allowed to join the WorldTour as teams are, even if that means downsizing to a calendar with fewer races.

"It's not only about minimum wage, but that is one ♍aspect that n𒅌eeds to be considered," Vos said.

"If ꧟you look at the number of UCI women's teams that we have [40 registered UCI women's teams in 2016, ed.], and the level of those teams between the best of them and the lower regional teams, there is a big difference.

"It would be good to have a WorldTour where the best teams offer mini𒊎mum wage and full staff; soigneur and mechanic - you would have to implement logical steps for those teams. And then you would have the best teams, best riders and the best races in the WorldTour. T♎hat is what you want.

"Right now there is a big discrepancy between the teams and organisations. We have to go through standards and start small; maybe there would only be 10 teams that are capable of going to the WorldTour level, aℱnd then other teams 🧸could try to get to that level, same with events and organisations.

"We have a strong WorldTour at the moment; the best races are in, but there is still a big discrepancy betwee🐭n the organisations, rules of the road book and prize money. It would be best if the races go in the same line as the team progressions."

Looking back on the 2016 UCI Women's WorldTour

The series kicked off at Strade Bianche in March and world cham𓄧pion Lizzie Armitstead won the opening round. Boels Dolmans continued its dominance🥂 of the series with Chantal Blaak winning Ronde van Drenthe and Gent-Wevelgem, while Armitstead won Trofeo Alfredo Binda-Cittiglio and Tour of Flanders. Vos' Rabo Liv teammate Anna van der Breggen won La Fleche Wallonne.

The series travelled to China for the Tour of Chongming Island won by Chloe Hosking (Wiggle High5), and then to the US where Guarnier won both the Tour of California, where Vos won a stage, and the Philadelphia International💃 Cycling Classic. Guarnier then moved into the overall WorldTour lead.

Back to the UK a🌜nd Armistead won the overall title at Aviva Women's Tour. But Guarnier continued to build her ser𒁃ies lead after winning the overall title at the Giro Rosa.

The series ended with a handful one-day races. Hosking won La Course by Le Tou🐽r de France, Kirsten Wild (Hitec Products) won Prudential RideLondon Classique, Boels Dolmans won Crescent Vargarda team time trial and Emilia Fahlin (Ale Cipoll🌳ini) won Crescent Vargarda road race. Eugenia Bujak (BTC) went on to win the penultimate round at GP de Plouay and Jolien D'hoore (Wiggle High5) won the finale at Le Madrid Challenge by Le Vuelta a Espana.

Guarnier completed the series with 946 points, a massive advantage over second-placed Leah Kirchman (Team Liv-Plantur) who had 604 points, while Armitstead finished third with 545 points. Boels Dolmans also won the t🍌💜eam classification.