{"id":68940,"date":"2025-08-15T13:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68940\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T13:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T13:22:11","slug":"five-teams-disqualified-from-tour-de-romandie-feminin-hours-before-stage-1-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/68940\/","title":{"rendered":"Five teams disqualified from Tour de Romandie F\u00e9minin hours before stage 1 start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/CORVOS_00037827-050.jpg\" alt=\"Five teams disqualified from Tour de Romandie F\u00e9minin hours before stage 1 start\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__category\" href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"article__sub-title\">Lidl-Trek, Visma-Lease a Bike, and Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto among teams kicked out of the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__thumbnail-caption\">Niamh Fisher-Black, a favourite for the race overall, was one of the riders disqualified along with her whole team.<\/p>\n<p>                                <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Abby Mickey\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"author__photo lazy \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Abby-Mickey-150x150.jpg\" width=\"99\" height=\"99\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Cor Vos<\/p>\n<p>Five teams \u2014 Lidl-Trek, PicNic PostNL, Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto, Visma-Lease a Bike, and EF Education-Oatly \u2014 have been disqualified from the Tour de Romandie prior to the opening stage on Friday. The disagreement that led to their disqualification involved the UCI&#8217;s new regulations regarding tracking devices, which were set to be tested at the three-day Women&#8217;s WorldTour event. Initially, AG Insurance-Soudal was also set to be disqualified; however, the Belgian team will be allowed to start the race. <\/p>\n<p>The teams in question have stated they would comply with the UCI&#8217;s use of GPS trackers, but there was contention around how the devices would be attached to the bikes and what the data would be used for.<\/p>\n<p>Underlying the disagreement in Romandie, and its somewhat extreme consequences, is a longstanding battle between the UCI and professional teams over who owns rider data, and by proxy, who could potentially monetize or otherwise benefit from that data. The dispute is in many ways similar to those over image rights in other sports, pitting two groups against each other that both lay claim to a potentially lucrative or at least informative asset: the detailed metrics generated by riders. <\/p>\n<p>            This post is for paying subscribers only<br \/>\n            <a class=\"gh-btn\" data-portal=\"signup\" href=\"#\/portal\/signup\" style=\"color:#FF6F42\">Subscribe now<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Already have an account? <a data-portal=\"signin\" href=\"#\/portal\/signin\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Did we do a good job with this story?<\/p>\n<p class=\"reactions\" data-post-id=\"689f0be8cb9a78721eb031c7\">\n                    \ud83d\udc4dYep<br \/>\n                    \ud83d\udc4eNope\n                <\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/news-and-racing\/\" title=\"News &amp; Racing\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f293b3 news-and-racing\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News &amp; Racing<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/womens-cycling\/\" title=\"women&#039;s cycling\" class=\"tag tag-67a677ae0c7ad49bf4f29644 womens-cycling\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">women&#8217;s cycling<\/a><br \/>\n                        <a href=\"https:\/\/escapecollective.com\/tag\/tour-de-romandie-feminin\/\" title=\"Tour de Romandie Feminin\" class=\"tag tag-689c6892cb9a78721eafb0f0 tour-de-romandie-feminin\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de Romandie Feminin<\/a>\n                <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News &amp; Racing Lidl-Trek, Visma-Lease a Bike, and Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto among teams kicked out of the race. 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