Instead of unloading rollers and time trial bikes to prepare for the prologue of the fourth Tour de Romandie Féminin, scheduled over the 4.4 km between Huémoz and Villars-sur-Ollon, fivr teams did the opposite: they reloaded their equipment onto their vehicles and are returning home.

CANYON // SRAM zondacrypto, EF Education - Oatly, Lidl-Trek, Team Picinic PostNL and Team Visma | Lease a Bike did not line up at the start of the Swiss World Women Tour event: clear evidence of how high-level cycling is dramatically split in two. Massive confusion at the starting area...

According to information gathered by tuttobiciweb, the teams were excluded from the race because they did not take responsibility for deciding which athlete should carry the new device, thus refusing to take responsibility for the sporting inequity.

What device are we talking about? Without getting into technical acrobatics, we can essentially talk about an app that identifies the athlete's location, thus a safety system. Proposed by SafeR and the AIGCP, the Sports Groups Association: one athlete per team was the idea, to test it at Romandie.

The "Aventine" teams replied that they would not take responsibility for choosing an athlete at the expense of others, the UCI hinted at disqualifications for something not provided for in the regulations, and a breakdown occurred.

We're talking about safety, various apps (by the way, Velon's system has been active and tested for years...) but the only certain thing is that top-level cycling is dramatically split in two.

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