the UCI will create a working group on attractiveness to "recover emotion"

"We want to find some the emotion " in the Tour de France, pleaded Monday monday on franceinfo the president of the International Cycling Union (UCI) David Lappartient, the day after the coronation of Geraint Thomas.

The 105th edition confirmed "the stranglehold" of the Sky team which, once again, "padlocked" the race, regretted David Lappartient. "For us, it's something that needs to change" he explained. This is why the UCI "will create a working group on the attractiveness" professional races.

"I always said that it seemed to me to be a good solution, recalls the boss of the UCI We are working on this for an introduction as soon as possible, a priori perhaps with the reform of professional cycling in 2020. The aim is to ensure that the the best riders are divided into different teams, and we have a race that is more attractive.The fact of limiting the general budget would make it possible to have riders better distributed and a more attractive race " he

To regain the appeal, David Lappartient also argued for a ban on power sensors, which provide data to runners in real time to modulate and calculate their effort.

Even more than the auricles [grâce auxquelles les coureurs reçoivent des consignes de leurs directeurs sportifs] the ca power fighters are a handicap David Lappartient, president of the UCI with franceinfo

These sensors are "an element that phagocyte the race" judges the president of the UCI. "We want to see runners who pedal without being, as Bernard Hinault said, machines to the order of the one who is in the car behind" concluded David Lappartient.