The new ProVelo Super League (PSL), which is ready to supply a nationwide racing collection for the highest home riders in Australia from 2025, has introduced that the Under 23 rivals might be in with an opportunity to earn a spot as a stagiaire with Jayco-AlUla or the ladies’s Liv-AlUla-Jayco improvement staff.
Gerry Ryan, who’s backing the brand new League, is providing up a contract for the U23 males’s collection winner to affix the WorldTour squad as a stagiaire from August 1 2025, and the ladies’s U23 collection winner secures a spot on the Liv AlUla Jayco improvement staff for the entire 2026 season.
“The pathway from grassroots biking, to PSL, onto a stagiaire place in a WorldTour staff highlights each Gerry’s and the PSL’s shared imaginative and prescient for the game of biking on this nation,” mentioned Matt Wilson, Co-Founder of ProVelo Super League in a media assertion.
“The pathway for Australian riders is a giant a part of the PSL imaginative and prescient, the power to get athletes to Europe and the WorldTour is a improbable hyperlink that ought to encourage the subsequent technology of Australian riders.”
The ProVelo Super League is meant to switch the long-running National Road Series, with a schedule that features three-day excursions and two one-day races over ten weeks. It will embody each present and new occasions and run in places throughout Australia with elite males’s and ladies’s classes by to junior divisions.
When forming the brand new league – backed by AusCycling – organisers outlined a plan to rejuvenate the highest stage of biking in Australia, and construct its worth as a pathway for a brand new technology of riders. This included a robust give attention to constructing an viewers, with every race to be broadcast not less than partially.
That ought to probably construct the profile and alternative for athletes and sponsors alike, however the announcement of the stagiaire contracts additionally delivers a direct and concrete likelihood for younger riders to make use of the brand new collection as a launching pad to assist bridge the hole between racing in Australia and racing on the high stage internationally.
“The transition to worldwide racing, particularly in Europe, is extremely difficult,” mentioned ProVelo Super League ambassador Mitch Docker within the assertion. “The stage of competitors is exceptionally excessive, and the cultural variations together with unfamiliar racing kinds, nearly broke me in my first few years abroad,” added the now-retired WorldTour racer.
The new league mentioned it’s set to launch throughout the Australian summer time of biking in Adelaide in January 2025.
