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Stephen Farrand

UCI confirm trial ban of team radio at 2024 summer races and yellow card punishment plans in 2025

SAINTAMANDMONTROND FRANCE JULY 09 LR Jasper Philipsen of Belgium and Team Alpecin Deceuninck celebrates at finish line as stage winner ahead of Biniam Girmay of Eritrea and Team Intermarche Wanty Green Sprint Jersey during the 111th Tour de France 2024 Stage 10 a 1873km stage from Orleans to SaintAmandMontrond UCIWT on July 09 2024 in Orleans France Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images.

The UCI will restrict the use of team radio and begin to symbolically punish riders with yellow cards from August 1 and impose sanctions in 2025 as the SafeR stakeholders group works to improve race safety.

The UCI tested the modification of the ‘three-kilometre’ rule, the point where times for the general classification and the simplification of calculating time gaps in sprint finishes, during the Tour de France and have decided to press on with more changes and trials in the final months of 2024.

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