Bernhard Eisel was left as the impromptu spokesman for the riders at the Dubai Tour when the fourth stage was cancelled due a desert storm, filling in for the CPA (Cyclistes Professionnels Associés), after they failed to nominate a rider to represent them during the five- day race in the Middle East.
The CPA usually names its representative for each race but left the riders to fend for themselves as they held their annual assembly in Switzerland. So far the CPA has only publically nominated Adam Hansen as its representative at the Tour Down Under, announcing the news via Twitter. The last news item on the CPA website is from July 30 2016 and it names Iker Camano as the CPA representative for the San Sebastian Classic. The CPA claims it only nominates representative for WorldTour races.
When the Dubai Tour organisers and UCI judges applied the Extreme Weather Protocol and called a meeting to discuss and decide on cancelling the stage, they automatically reached out to Eisel, even though he has cut ties with the CPA and is no longer a member of the UCI Athletes Commission. He stepped up to represent the other riders but was embarrassed that no CPA delegate had been officially nominated from the 126 riders in the race or other members of the CPA.
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The teams were also chastised for failing to name their representative for the Dubai Tour.
“The UCI blamed us and the directeurs for not having a (nominated) spokesman before the race that they can go up to and talk to,” Eisel told the media at the Dubai Tour after the fourth stage was cancelled.
“I take that, it’s the CPA’s fault. It’s not my fault. I had nothing to do with that. There should be a representative and a sports director and this didn’t happen.”
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