Teams representative says UCI taking them for granted


  • Cycling
  • Friday, 21 Sep 2018

FILE PHOTO: Cycling - Tour de France - The 116-km Stage 21 from Houilles to Paris Champs-Elysees - July 29, 2018 - Team Sky rider Geraint Thomas of Britain, wearing the overall leader's yellow jersey, in the peloton. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer/File Photo

LONDON (Reuters) - Cycling teams are being "taken for granted" by world governing body the UCI and fear that planned reforms will continue to leave them short-changed, according to a representative of cycling's team organisation, the AIGCP.

Team bosses, race organisers and other stakeholders held a meeting in Madrid earlier this month in which they outlined their concerns ahead of reforms proposed by UCI president David Lappartient to be implemented by 2020.

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