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The AIOCC held its general meeting on Friday 21 September in Copenhagen (Denmark). 142 AIOCC member races elected the new Management Committee, which appointed Javier Guillen, General Director of the Vuelta ciclista a España, as President for four years (2026-2029). He succeeds Christian Prudhomme, President of the AIOCC since 2008, who did not stand for re-election.

Christian Prudhomme: “I have spent 17 wonderful years with the AiOCC, whose mission is to unite and bring people together. Now that we have surpassed the 200-member mark, it is the right time to smoothly pass on the torch.”

Javier Guillen: “It is a great honor to be elected President, a position with a great deal of responsibility. I want to continue the work carried out by Christian Prudhomme. We have a common goal within the AIOCC: to make cycling better! ”

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UCI Management Committee to decide on 31 March whether to approve request from the Professional Cycling Council to increase the number of teams participating in the men’s Grand Tours

The Professional Cycling Council (PCC) – the body bringing together the stakeholders of men’s and women’s professional road cycling – met on 26 March at the headquarters of the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in Aigle, Switzerland. Members discussed several important topics concerning men’s and women’s professional road cycling.

Regarding regulatory changes, all the families represented within the PCC – organisers, teams and riders – had jointly submitted a request that the number of teams participating in the men’s Grand Tours (Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and La Vuelta Ciclista a España) be increased to 23 starting this year. Until now, their number has been limited to 22 (the 18 UCI WorldTeams, the two best UCI ProTeams in the UCI World Team Ranking, which benefit from a compulsory invitation, and two UCI ProTeams chosen by each organiser). The request was examined by the PCC today and the proposal was accepted by the majority of its members. It will now be submitted to the UCI Management Committee, which will make a final decision on the matter by 31 March. The other regulatory issues addressed will be decided at the UCI Management Committee meeting in June.

With regard to the calendars, preparatory work for the renewal of the registration of events on the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour calendars for the 2026-2028 period has begun. The procedure will be finalised at the next PCC meeting. The 2026 calendars and the list of events that will appear on the 2027 and 2028 calendars will then be submitted to the UCI Management Committee for approval in June. As part of the registration applications received, the PCC took note of bids for new events within the One Cycling project in respect of which the families expressed their wish for the continuation of the ongoing discussions but with their formal participation and under the authority of the UCI to establish the UCI International Calendar, define its different tiers and allocate events. The members of the PCC underlined that the official representative organisations (AIGCP, AIOCC and CPA) must be implicated in the decision-making process related to the UCI WorldTour and UCI Women’s WorldTour and that they must be adequately consulted in relation to the One Cycling project, given its implications for all stakeholders and for the calendar as a whole.

As part of the support for the development of women’s cycling, the members of the PCC voted in favour of an increase in the participation and accommodation allowances granted to women’s teams during the 2026-2028 cycle.

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