The Women’s WorldTour is ready to lose an occasion in 2025, with TripLondon Classique organisers stating on Friday that because of a UCI-imposed shift of dates for subsequent yr’s race, they should cancel it.
After the UCI revealed the 2025 WWT calendar this morning, there have been solely minor adjustments to dates, most of which simply noticed races return to their authentic slots after transferring in 2024 as a result of Paris Olympics. However, TripLondon was pushed again per week later from the weekend of May 23-25 to May 30 to June 1.
Organisers claimed right now that this transformation got here with out “session or prior warning” and that because of how early main occasions should be deliberate in central London, that they had no alternative however to cancel the three-day stage race.
“We have been extraordinarily shocked to learn by the UCI that the 2025 Ford TripLondon Classique had been moved on the WWT calendar from the final full weekend in May to a brand new date per week later,” read a statement from Hugh Brasher, Event Director of Ford TripLondon and CEO of organisers London Marathon Events (LME).
“There was no session or prior warning and the information got here regardless of LME beforehand being suggested by the UCI that there could be no adjustments to the calendar till 2026.
“Major occasions in London are deliberate a few years forward and it’s unimaginable for the Ford TripLondon Classique to happen in central London on the brand new dates proposed unilaterally by the UCI. Alternative dates at this late stage are unimaginable.”
Brasher described it as a tragic day for girls’s biking, saying the UCI wouldn’t budge from the brand new date they supplied.
“The UCI won’t reverse this determination or permit two Women’s WorldTour occasions to happen on the identical weekend,” Brasher insisted.
“Therefore, sadly, it won’t be doable to stage the Ford TripLondon Classique in 2025. It is a really unhappy day for skilled ladies’s biking.”
TripLondon started as a legacy occasion from the 2012 Olympic Games within the UK and has had seven editions since its first in 2016. It began out as a one-day occasion on the streets of London ending on The Mall, then after cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, re-emerged a three-day stage race in Essex and London for 2022.
The most up-to-date version was dominated by Lorena Wiebes and SD Worx-Protime and whereas the race received’t happen in 2025, the Ford TripLondon-Essex 100, 60 & 30 & Ford TripLondon FreeCycle will likely be held as deliberate on Sunday 25 May 2025.
Cyclingnews has reached out to the UCI for remark.