The International Cycling Union (UCI) welcomes the request of the International Olympic Committee and sanctions cycling teams from Russia and Belarus with the withdrawal of licensesas well as the exclusion from the international calendar of the local races and championships of these countries, this according to the decision adopted by its steering committee in view of the situation in Ukraine after the military invasion of Russia.
The appearance of all emblems, names, acronyms, flags and hymns linked to Russia and Belarus is also prohibited. in all the tests of the UCI international calendar, which leaves out the presence of the jerseys of the national champions of Russia and Belarus in the different competitions.
The UCI clarifies that cyclists with Russian and Belarusian licenses are allowed to participate in tests of the UCI calendar with their respective teams provided they are registered with a UCI team that is neither Russian nor Belarusian. Russian and Belarusian cyclists can also participate in the tests of the UCI international calendar if individual registration is authorized.
The UCI clarified that “the UCI team status is withdrawn from all teams of Russian or Belarusian nationality and the UCI will not consider further applications for UCI status from teams from these two countries.”
The withdrawal of UCI team status affects a list of six teams, between professional and continental, male and female, including the Gazprom-RusVelo of Russia, which has also received announcements from its sponsors with the withdrawal of their signatures.
As part of your decisions, the UCI has also ruled on the sponsorship of Russian or Belarusian brands and companies. Considering that this would damage the image of the UCI and of cycling in general, said sponsorship will not be authorised.
The UCI Management Committee has today decided to bring into effect a number of measures following the IOC recommendations.
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Therefore, teams and event organizers have been asked to do not grant any visibility to Russian or Belarusian sponsors at UCI events.
The UCI emphasized “its great concern about the situation in Ukraine” and “strongly condemns the aggression of the Russian and Belarusian governments and their breach of the Olympic Truce. The UCI wishes to see a return to peace as quickly as possible and calls for respect for the Olympic values,” he said in a statement.
“Indeed, sport in general and cycling in particular are vehicles of peace, friendship, solidarity and tolerance,” he says in a statement.
The UCI has decided to offer its support to the Ukrainian cycling community and is committed to welcoming athletes from this country to the UCI World Cycling Center (WCC), its education and training center in Aigle, Switzerland.
In this way, the UCI is in permanent contact with the National Federation of Ukraine. UCI President David Lappartient together with European Cycling Union (UEC) President Enrico Della Casa will meet with the President and representatives of the National Federation of Ukraine during the UEC Congress in Denmark this weekend to define the procedures for reaching out to the help of the Ukrainian cycling community. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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