The International Association of Professional Cycling Teams (AIGCP) has informed the UCI it will fight against the planned reforms of the men's WorldTour for 2017, saying that some news details of the reforms have been approved unilaterally and against the best interest of the WorldTour teams.
In a stern letter revealed by the Radsport-News website and seen by Cyclingnews, AIGCP President Ivan Spekenbrink (manager of the Giant-Alpecin team) and Managing Director Javier Barrio, the AIGCP says its General Assembly on September 30 mandated the board of directors to do whatever is required, legal, collectively or otherwise, to ensure its objectives are achieved.
The AIGCP states clearly that it wants the 2017 WorldTour to include 18 teams so that Bahrain-Merida, Bora-Hansgrohe and Dimension Data all secure places. It also rejects the principle of promotion and relegation and the idea of compulsory participation in the new World Tour races.
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The letter says: "The UCI has embarked on a strategy for growing/expanding the number of WorldTour events, and at the same time, killing a number of well-functioning WorldTour teams. By reducing the number of WorldTour licences for teams, the UCI is taking away the economic rights of teams without any justification for it."
It suggests that "No proper process was followed in the expansion of the WorldTour. The UCI Reform outlined a clear process for the evaluation of races to join the WorldTour – to be based on well-defined criteria such as safety standards and team participation – which was not adhered to and the UCI unilaterally submitted a list of races to the PCC to become WorldTour without consideration of the interests of Teams, Riders or race organisers in lower category of races."
"The unanimous position of all the WorldTeams in the AIGCP is that under no circumstance will they accept or comply with any attempt by the UCI to implement any system by which a team is directly or indirectly forced or pressurized to participation in any new WorldTour race."
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