The UCI announced today that it would allow 18 teams to remain in the men's WorldTour in 2017 and 2018 before beginning its reduction in the scale of the sport's top tier. But while the full regulations for the WorldTour will not be published until next month, some amendments to the road racing regulations and general rules were posted on the UCI site.
One WorldTour rule was amended in the published document: rule 2.15.128, which governs WorldTour teams' (UCI WorldTeam) obligations to participate in the WorldTour races.
The monetary penalty for failing to compete was kept at CHF 10,000-20,000, but a caveat was added, allowing the UCI to choose to not take action should a team skip or withdraw from a WorldTour race "following an abnormal situation pertaining to doping" and the organisers agree in writing to allow the team's absence.
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The rule adds clarity in case a team is suspended under the UCI Anti-Doping rules for having more than one doping case in a 12-month period.
The UCI also tweaked the rules for the UCI's various teams classifications: if a rider transfers mid-season, as happened with Carlos Verona and Carmen Small this year, and Rohan Dennis in 2014, and had points that contributed to the old team's rankings, the points accumulated remain with that team and do not transfer to the new one. Only points accumulated while racing with the new team count toward the new team's rankings. Trainee points do not count toward his 'host' team's rankings.
For UCI World Rankings, points from team time trials are now equally distributed amongst all riders who finish the team time trial and rounded up to the nearest whole point, whereas previous rules only awarded points to riders who finished in the same time as the lead rider.
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