GoFundMe page,<\/a> if it reaches \u20ac35,000 that will cover the cost of running its mentor programme until the end of 2026. A total of \u20ac65,000 would be enough to also maintain legal support for athletes while \u20ac100,000 would enable it to continue running for the rest of 2026 with its wider athlete education & advocacy with the UCI also in tact.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n
Sponsorship has in the past helped keep the group running, with Strava, BBB, Zwift, Cannondale, Trek, Rapha Foundation, Liv and SRAM among the supporters but the organisation now finds itself in a tenuous position.<\/p>\n
“TCA is working hard to secure longer term partners, but that takes time. Without immediate financial support, The Cyclists\u2019 Alliance will be forced to cease operations,” said the organisation in a media release.<\/p>\n
The group, which also runs a yearly survey revealing the state of play in the women’s peloton, is on edge at a time when high-level women’s road cycling is becoming an increasingly divided world.<\/p>\n
“The WorldTour level is growing and thriving but the Continental level, where riders learn and develop, is still fragile,” said Brown.<\/p>\n
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That is evident by the growing gap between those riding at WorldTour level and in the lower ranks with the 2025 Cyclists’ Alliance survey finding that 80% of those outside the two top tiers earned less than \u20ac20,000 a year, compared with 64% respondents in 2024. In recent years team including B&B Hotels, Zaaf, Lifeplus Wahoo and Hess have also folded,<\/p>\n
“The legal help TCA offers for reviewing athlete contracts, advocating for riders\u2019 in team disputes, and supporting athletes when a team folds are just some of the essential work of the Alliance,” said Alison Jackson, a member of the group’s rider council.<\/p>\n
“As a younger athlete I was stuck in a team dispute in another language that, without TCA\u2019s help, I would not have been able to manage or understand. This independent advocacy group is so important to keep decision-making power in the hands of the athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fund raiser, which has only just recently been opened had, at the time of writing raised \u20ac3,542.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since 2017 The Cyclists’ Alliance (TCA) has campaigned for key rights in the women’s peloton \u2013 from minimum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-515248","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\/515248","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=515248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}