AIGCP

Following last week’s elections, we are pleased to inform that the newly elected AIGCP Management Committee has elected its Board. The appointments are as follows:

- Richard Plugge (Jumbo – Visma) : President
- Alfonso Galilea (Movistar Team): 1st Vice-President
- Carsten Jeppesen (Ineos Grenadiers): 2nd Vice-President
- Elisa Madiot (Groupama – FDJ) : General Secretary
- Philippe Chevallier (AG2R Citroën Team) : Treasurer
- Thibaut Macé (TotalEnergies): Member of the AIGCP Management Committee
- Ricardo Scheidecker (Deceuninck – Quick-Step): Member of the AIGCP Management Committee

The members of the newly elected Management Committee AIGCP thank all who supported them. They will now strive to defend the interests of all professional teams and to work and engage with all stakeholders (riders, UCI and race organizers) towards a better cycling. Health, safety and environment are the immediate challenges facing cycling today. The AIGCP Management Committee is convinced that only a common and global vision will allow us to meet these challenges.

We look forward to sharing the details of this vision in a future meeting with all teams.

AIGCP informs that last Friday 3rd March 2017, its General Assembly elected a new Management Committee for a 2-year term. We are pleased to inform of the following appointments to key roles:

- Iwan Spekenbrink (Team Sunweb) is re-appointed as President
- Richard Plugge (Team Lotto NL – Jumbo) is re-appointed as Vice-President and Treasurer
- Alfonso Galilea (Movistar Team) is appointed as Deputy Vice-President
- Shayne Bannan (Orica – Scott) is appointed as General Secretary

The following team representatives complete the 7-member AIGCP Management Committee: Philippe Chevallier (AG2R La Mondiale), Carsten Jeppesen (Team Sky) and Ricardo Scheidecker (Quick - Step Floors).

The new AIGCP Management Committee looks forward to strengthening its relationship with all partners as it fulfils its mandate of furthering the rights and growth of all professional teams over the next 2 years.

Very wise decision to cancel tomorrows stage in Tirreno. high priority to the safety of the peloton... AIGCP's president, said: important step for cycling, proof that organizers, teams, riders and the UCI have to work together. Further, ensures that the put a lot of effort in the redaction of the Extreme Weather Protocol. Kudos to Mauro and his team at RCS to take good care of the peloton.

“Safety of riders put first in tomorrow's team time trial”

The AIGCP welcomes the decision of the UCI to annul the time differences in tomorrow Team Time Trial towards the general classification and not have the team time trial contribute World Tour points. It is the outcome of a meeting about the safety of the team time trial course between UCI, CPA (riders' association) and the AIGCP, yesterday evening and which was respected by Unipublic (organiser of the Vuelta a España). AIGCP appreciates the consultation amongst stakeholders which took place which led to this decision based on consensus amongst the stakeholders.

Although teams invest a lot of time and energy in this discipline, they see that the safety of the riders is their top priority.

Furthermore, the AIGCP will take the initiative to study the existing
procedure to get courses designed and approved in consultation with the UCI, CPA and AIOCC (organisers' association) in the UCI Safety Commission and will there provoke a discussion on existing rules concerning the minimum requirement of safe courses and specifically of (team) time trial courses.