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The UCI just gave its highest award to this dictator
Last week was a big week for Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, the president of Turkmenistan. The former dentist had a packed schedule of days f...

Explainer: The UCI and the teams are locked in a power struggle. Why?
The 2020 season is ticking along, but behind the scenes, all is not well in the sport of professional cycling, with an ongoing dispute be...

UCI president mulls gravel world championships within next few years
The rapid growth of gravel racing has not gone unnoticed by the UCI. Cycling's global governing body may not currently have a deep involv...

The weekly spin: Ineos courting Carapaz highlights need for WorldTour budget cap
Even though they didn’t factor in the race, Team Ineos is now at the center of the narrative surrounding the 2019 Giro d’Italia champion....

Lappartient says Brailsford was ‘pouring oil on the fire’ with rest day comments
UCI President David Lappartient has questioned the logic of David Brailsford’s rest day criticism of the French public, saying that it is...

UCI says no reasoned decision will be released for Froome case, elaborates on related topics
Addressing the outcome of the Chris Froome case and also responding to related criticism and debate arising from that, the UCI has said t...

Lappartient says UCI had to follow WADA’s lead and clear Froome
UCI President David Lappartient has confirmed that the governing body had to follow suit once WADA cleared Chris Froome over his adverse ...

UCI corrects race director's assurance that Froome's Giro result will stand
Will Chris Froome be allowed to keep his result from the Giro d’Italia once his ongoing salbutamol violation is adjudicated by an arbitra...

Explainer: A closer look at the UCI’s new plans to combat hidden motors
A little over two years after Femke Van Den Driesshe made regrettable history when she was the first rider to be caught using a hidden mo...

UCI President Lappartient wants investigation into Team Sky
UCI President David Lappartient has called for the Cycling Anti-Doping Foundation, an independent arm of the UCI, to open an investigatio...

Lappartient open to life bans for motor use, comments further on Armstrong
UCI President David Lappartient based a large part of his election campaign on the fight against the use of hidden motors, or technologic...

Lappartient plans to ban use of corticoids from early 2019
New UCI president David Lappartient has said that he has set a start date of the beginning of the 2019 season as the point from which he ...