The UCI has introduced that it’s going to provide monetary incentives in a bid to encourage whistleblowers to offer info on using motors in biking.
The governing physique outlined the main points of its ‘rewards programme’ for info on technological fraud on Friday after the scheme was ratified by the UCI Management Committee on the Road World Championships in Zürich this week.
“The purpose of the programme will probably be to encourage folks with info on this topic to share it – confidentially – with the UCI in alternate for a monetary reward,” the UCI mentioned.
A whistleblowing programme with attainable monetary rewards was beforehand initiated throughout all sports activities by the World Anti-Doping Agency in 2016. This new UCI coverage, particular to technological fraud in biking, was outlined in a doc revealed on Friday, which said that info to assist goal testing and investigations can be “facilitated by way of monetary motivation, help, and/or reward for info”.
The rewards programme will probably be open to informants, whistleblowers and sources “who present actionable info on technological fraud in biking voluntarily and in good religion”.
The UCI outlined three ranges of compensation for informants – materials help, monetary help and financial award.
The doc didn’t specify the extent of monetary remuneration that might be supplied for info, nevertheless it said that the confidential disbursements “could embody financial funds or value-in-kind (VIK) rewards, resembling gadgets or entry to occasions”.
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No extra skilled riders at under-23 Worlds
The UCI Management Committee assembly additionally introduced formal affirmation that riders contracted to skilled groups (at WorldTour and ProTeam degree) will now not be permitted to race within the under-23 class at World and Continental Championships after this season.
Riders registered with WorldTour and ProTeam growth squads will nonetheless be allowed to race within the under-23 class.
“As far because the UCI Worlds are involved, this choice will apply for the primary time on the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali (Rwanda),” the UCI mentioned.
Elsewhere, Milan-San Remo Women has been formally added to the UCI calendar for 2025, with the race set to happen on March 22, the identical day as the boys’s occasion. The Trofeo Binda is ready to maneuver every week earlier within the calendar, to Sunday, March 16.
The dates of the 2026 Gravel World Championships in Nannup, Australia have been shifted by every week to October 10-11, whereas the hosts of various future World Championships in numerous disciplines are set to be introduced following Friday’s UCI Congress.
The UCI Management Committee additionally said that it has “strengthened” the choice standards for WorldTour occasions for the interval 2026-2028, when the calendar is because of be reformed.
“Greater emphasis will probably be positioned on the strategic match of occasions on the UCI WorldTour calendar, on the evaluation of their business worth – together with on the idea of engagement on social networks and tv broadcasting -, on the sporting degree of groups and riders in earlier editions, and on the organisers’ compliance with the UCI Regulations,” learn the assertion.