Crazy! Women's Vuelta a Andalucia is duped by group of Guinea-Bissau men claiming to be women's team
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In one of the more curious cycling related stories you are ever likely to read, the 2024 women's Vuelta a Andalucia has been thrown in chaos by a group of men claiming to be from Guinea-Bissau.
According to a report by Marca, the Guinea-Bissau Federation contacted Deporinter, the company that organises the race, in order to bring over a team from the African nation. An agreement was quickly reached with race organisers and the team from Guinea-Bissau, content with the situation were reportedly also planning to race in Éibar alongside the women's Volta.
However, after all the relative documents were forwarded to the UCI, with reservations made at local hotels for the team to stay in during their stay, the trail of the Guinea-Bissau team goes cold for the race organisers. According to Marca, despite frequent calls an attempts to make contact, the organization knows nothing about this group whose leaders neither pick up the phone nor answer messages.
In another twist to the tale, the UCI licences of riders signed up for the race as part of the Guinea-Bissau team have now been revealed to be male riders and not women. Understandably given what has transpired, the team is no longer on the cards to race the upcoming Volta a Andalucia with race organisers reportedly intent on seeking damages from the mysterious figures involved.
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- What a disaster this has turned out to be, considering that basically half of the peloton have abandoned the race in protest. Things are not looking good for the race's organization.
santiagobenites07-02-2025 - Oi! Get it together UCI. Relocate now. Racing is dangerous enough without being Km's from an active war zone!yuckly07-02-2025
- Good job! It's been a long road since his accident.1stpastthepost07-02-2025
- Thanks, it wasn’t showing early on, sometimes the site has posting delays, it refreshes very badly and gets confused when people edit. GB really doesn’t want to promote cycling, you see it at every level, maybe drivers are lobbying against making cycling too popular, haha.Mistermaumau07-02-2025
- Everyone wants to grab a slice of pie, hapoened in boxing, happening in golf now, trying to happen in club football. Will we need to add undisputed champion in cycling too one day?Mistermaumau07-02-2025
- see above, I did, not sure why it didn't come as a reply.mij07-02-2025
- she was only riding mountain, a little gravel, a little cross. she didn't do any road riding, so she didn't need a team. it seems they didn't want to build a road team around her.mij07-02-2025
- yeah, there are some sports that do a season long WORLD CUP WINNER, or some version of it, but even most of THOSE also have a World Championships EVENT. cyclocross is in that category (though the value of the world cup is watered down there due to there being THREE separately scored championship series).OCexile07-02-2025
- There are so many different sports, and equally many where this is not the case. Football has all sorts of differing championships. Swimming and Athletics are more like cycling, cyclocross is different again. Track cycling is often like tennis. BMX is more like rowing but in the end it’s hard to name more than a couple of sports that have exactly the same championship qualifying and set-up. Yes, in motorsport you usually have to participate in a long line of yearly events to win a championship but when is the last time you saw a driver do any 2 of F1, Rallye, Nascar etc in a season? Practically impossible so don’t forget, if you want to see the likes of WVA and MVDP or even Pidcock and others in several disciplines, it may not be wise to bog them down into choosing one.Mistermaumau07-02-2025
- Perhaps, or perhaps the UCI should be obliged to provide a minimum number of volunteers for each of the higher categories of races, showing they take the problem of safety a bit seriously when it comes to practical issues?Mistermaumau06-02-2025