The 2024 AIOCC General Assembly will take place in Italy

The 2024 AIOCC General Assembly will take place in Italy

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The 2024 AIOCC General Assembly will take place in Italy.

The association’s executive board has decided to hold the event on November 21-22, 2024, in Garda Trentino (Italy), between Arco and Riva del Garda

We are pleased to welcome the World’s foremost representatives of cycling organizations to the banks of Lake Garda next year,” stated Giacomo Santini, President of G.S. Alto Garda.

It is a fine acknowledgment of our history and the outcomes achieved by the Tour of the Alps, as well as a chance for wide-ranging dialogue to continue our growth and to honor the partners who have believed in our project.”

Stakeholders of UCI Women’s WorldTour and UCI WorldTour gather at their annual seminar

Stakeholders of UCI Women’s WorldTour and UCI WorldTour gather at their annual seminar

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Stakeholders of UCI Women’s WorldTour and UCI WorldTour gather at their annual seminar

The different stakeholders of the UCI Women’s WorldTour and UCI WorldTour met on 13 and 14 December in Lausanne, Switzerland, for their annual seminar organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).

The seminar for the leading series of women’s and men’s professional road racing was attended by around 160 people representing the UCI, organisers, teams and riders.

Marcos Moral received the AIOCC 2022 trophy

Marcos Moral received the AIOCC 2022 trophy

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 Marcos Moral received the AIOCC 2022 trophy

After more than 40 years with the organization of the Vuelta a Burgos, the last thirteen of which as race director, Marcos Moral received the AIOCC 2022 trophy awarded last year at the General Meeting in Compiègne.

Winners 2023

Annemiek van Vleuten and Mark Cavendish are the winners of the AIOCC 2023 trophy, which recognizes the careers of these two great champions.

Awarded since 1960, the Trophy rewards an influential personality in cycling each year. Over the years, among those so honored are Eugene Christophe (honored in 1965), who won Milan San-Remo 1910, Jacques Anquetil (honored 1974), five-time winner of the Tour de France, Jacques Goddet, as well as Eddy Merckx, who has been awarded it twice, in 1980 and 2021.

 

The AIOCC General Assembly  in Burgos (Spain)

The AIOCC General Assembly in Burgos (Spain)

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The AIOCC General Assembly in Burgos (Spain)

The AIOCC hold its General Assembly this Friday, November 24 in Burgos (Spain).

44 representatives from member races attended the event this morning while 14 members followed the debates via videoconference.

Safety is everyone’s business

This is undoubtedly the main reason for the creation of an independent organization like SafeR. This project unites all families in the world of cycling with the main and sole objective of improving safety to reduce the number of incidents in races.

This organization brings to the table the cyclists (men and women), the teams, the commissioners, the International Cycling Union (UCI) and of course the organizers, to work together.

Jaap Van Hulten presents this project. SafeR meetings have been held weekly since June and a task force is currently formalizing the structure and content of this project, which should be ready by the start of the 2024 season. Uniting all families around the theme of safety is ambitious. To achieve the stated objectives, all parties involved must contribute financially to the efforts.

Chrono des Nations: victory for Tarling and Kiesenhofer

Chrono des Nations: victory for Tarling and Kiesenhofer

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Chrono des Nations Men: Tarling beats the world champion

Only nineteen years old! Joshua Tarling (Ineos – Grenadiers) confirmed at Les Herbiers this Sunday that he is already among the best riders in the world.

The Briton had already defeated Stefan Bissegger (EF Education – EasyPost) and Wout Van Aert (Jumbo – Visma) at the recent European time trial championships, but for the 41st edition of the Chrono des Nations, he was up against the reigning world time trial champion, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal – QuickStep), whom he also beat to win.

With a time of 52:02 and an average above 52.3 km/h, Joshua Tarling out-paced the Belgian by 12 seconds, and Stefan Bissegger by more than a minute.

The results: 1. Tarling (Ineos – Grenadiers) ; 2. Evenepoel (Soudal – QuickStep) ; 3. Bissegger (EF Education – EasyPost)…

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Chrono des Nations Women: An Austrian duel which ends in Kiesenhofer’s favor

Competing as a member of the Austrian national team, Anna Kiesenhofer (Austria) won the Chrono des Nations by just a second against her compatriot Christina Schweinberger (Fenix – Deceuninck).

Kiesenhofer, the current and frequent Austrian champion in this discipline, rode at an average speed of more than 44.9 km/h over the 27.2 km course.

This is the third victory for Kiesenhofer this season, all of which have come in individual time trials, though she is also the reigning Olympic champion… in the road race.

Valeriya Kononenko (Ukraine) took third place, 19 seconds behind.

The results: 1. Kiesenhofer (Austria) ; 2. Schweinberger (Fenix – Deceuninck) ; 3. Kononenko (Ukraine)…