The UCI has revealed its complete 2024 highway calendar confirming a couple of new races, the denise of others, and one race particularly lacking for subsequent season – the Vuelta a San Juan Internacional.
The ProSeries degree race made a comeback in past due January 2023 after the coronavirus pandemic ended in the cancellation of the former two editions, with Remco Evenepoel, Quinn Simmons and Sam Bennett at the get started checklist. Then again in 2024 the Argentinean race shall be held as an area match best on a some distance decrease price range with out the standard big-name invited WorldTour groups and riders.
The UCI revealed the lads’s and girls’s 2024 WorldTour calendars in the summertime, wirth race dates moderately changed to facilitate participation within the highway occasions on the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games.
In 2024 the Excursion de France Femmes shall be separated from the lads’s Grand Excursion via greater than 3 weeks, working on August 12 to 18, after the Paris Olympic Video games, whilst the lads’s Grand Excursion shall be shifted previous, from June 29 to July 21, so it ends the week prior to the Olympics begins.
Consistent with stories in Italy, the Adriatica Ionica Race has no longer been registered within the 2024 calendar. This yr’s race was once cancelled simply 16 hours prior to it was once because of get started.
On a brighter notice, organisers of the Problem Mallorca have added races for ladies to happen within the days prior to the lads’s sequence of races.
The 3-race Problem Vuelta Mallorca will run from January 20-22 in the similar structure as the lads’s – a sequence of one-day races somewhat than a degree race – together with the Trofeo Calvià Femina, Trofeo Palma Femina, and Trofeo Ses Salines Femina, organisers Unisport introduced.
Every other new race has been added to the Americas calendar, with a UCI 1.2-ranked Gran Premio New York Town to be held along with the Grand Fondo New York Town (GFNYC).
Happening on Would possibly 19, the lads’s race will get started at the George Washington Bridge quarter-hour forward of the gran fondo racers at the similar 137km direction with 1,900 metres of elevation coming from punchy brief climbs.
“Our function has all the time been to combine professionals into our mass participation races, very similar to what is finished in marathon and triathlon,” organiser Uli Fluhme instructed Cyclingnews.
“Whilst we’ve some professionals race our GFNYs, even from WorldTour groups, having a separate professional race get started simply forward of the mass participation race is a large step in opposition to bringing each worlds nearer in combination. This structure is a global premier and gives the professional biking lovers the chance to race the similar direction at the similar day as the professionals, simply in the back of them.”
The sphere shall be made up of Continental and ProTeams with the function of changing into a 1.1-ranked match in order that some WorldTour groups can take part at some point.
“We’re additionally running on including professional races to present GFNYs all over the world the place it is sensible from a logistical standpoint. For our mass participation GFNY races, we have already got closures and police in position so including a professional race simply prior to the mass participation race is an evident subsequent step,” Uli Fluhme stated.
For now, there’s just a males’s box in position however the organisation hopes so as to add a ladies’s GP NYC in 2024. For the reason that race will require further highway closure time, the ladies’s match is pending further sponsorship.