The UCI thinks of teams of six riders

The President of the International Cycling Union (UCI) spoke of the idea of ​​having teams of six riders at the start of the Tour de France next season. This summer, they had eight, against nine before. " I think we still have to reduce to really see the measure produce the effect ", indeed said David Lappartient Tuesday on Sporza. " A team should no longer be able to control everything at six, or more difficult at least … "

To regain its attractiveness, Lappartient also argued for a ban on power, which provide data to runners in real time allowing them to modulate and calculate their effort.

" Even more than the headsets, which might also need to be banned, the power sensors are a These sensors are an element that phagocyte the race "continued the president of the UCI. " We want to see runners who are pedaling without being machines to the order of the one who is in the car behind. "

Finally he did not exclude to invite a greater number of teams , and review the diagram of the steps.