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Jackie Tyson

Drone images under tighter restriction by UCI at future races

Illustration picture shows a drone during the team time trial mixed relay 44,5km from Knokke to Brugge, on the fourth day of the UCI World Championships Road Cycling Flanders 2021, in Brugge on Wednesday 22 September 2021. The Worlds take place from 19 to 26 September 2021, in several cities in Flanders, Belgium. BELGA PHOTO ERIC LALMAND (Photo by ERIC LALMAND/BELGA MAG/AFP via Getty Images).

Love those overhead images of a rider like Mathieu van der Poel attacking in the woods at a cyclocross race or a tight shot of Jonas Vingegaard setting a blistering pace in a time trial? 

Thanks to unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, those once-evasive pictures are now revealing crucial moves in bike races for broad audiences, and the UCI has tightened the regulations to keep drones as a safe resource.

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