UCI unanimously rejects the OneCycling project citing big flaws in current proposal

The UCI has rejected the proposal of OneCycling during its meeting in Arzon, France, on June 12. However they also made it clear that they're not opposed to the idea if it's reworked into a shape and form that would allign better with the current UCI system.

The Management Committee made a strong statement by unanimously rejecting the OneCycling project in its current form. The initiative, backed by certain teams, organisers and a sports investment fund, was deemed "inconsistent with UCI's governance framework" and lacking "competitive coherence."

While the One Cycling proposal was unanimously thrown off the board, the UCI president expressed his wish to further cooperate on development of this project as it's main ideas - globalization of the sport of cycling and financial independecy and stability for professional teams - allign with UCI's wishes to grow the sport of cycling.

Among other points that were discussed and approved on during this meeting, we note that Grand Tour organisers will now be required to invite the top three UCI ProTeams (compared to two between 2023-2025) alongside the 18 UCI WorldTeams. Furthermore, two wild cards will be once again issued by the race organizer. Thus it's become clear that 23 teams attending Grand Tours will become a new standard.