{"id":154660,"date":"2025-09-19T10:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154660\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T10:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T10:29:06","slug":"road-world-championships-2025-uci-introduce-gps-tracking-system-for-all-riders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154660\/","title":{"rendered":"Road World Championships 2025: UCI introduce GPS tracking system for all riders"},"content":{"rendered":"

World cycling’s governing body will use a GPS tracking system for all riders at the Road World Championships.<\/p>\n

The UCI (Union Cycliste Internationale) has confirmed the system will be introduced to enhance rider safety at the tournament in Rwanda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The trackers are being introduced to establish the position of every rider following the death of Muriel Furrer<\/a> during the junior women’s race at last year’s Road World Championships in Zurich.<\/p>\n

The 18-year-old Swiss cyclist crashed and was left unconscious in a wooded area for about an hour and a half as organisers were unaware she was stationary and in need of help.<\/p>\n

The UCI has banned radio communications between riders and teams during the worlds for about the past 15 years.<\/p>\n

The safety tracking technology was tested during the Tour de Romandie Feminin in Switzerland last month.<\/p>\n

The UCI disqualified five teams from that race, external<\/a> as they refused to elect one rider from their team to test the under-saddle device.<\/p>\n

The UCI said the system will “enable real-time monitoring of data regarding the position and speed of the entire peloton, thus allowing for immediate identification of any unusual situations, such as a rider suddenly stopping on the course”.<\/p>\n

UCI president David Lappartient said the system’s introduction “is important and necessary progress”.<\/p>\n

The Road World Championships will take place in Kigali, Rwanda from 21-28 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World cycling’s governing body will use a GPS tracking system for all riders at the Road World Championships.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-154660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}