‘Abuse has no place in our sport’ - UCI launches new integrity campaign

World governing body say new campaign is part of wider ‘cycling integrity’ programme, designed to ‘promote and strengthen integrity in cycling at all levels’

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The UCI has launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging cycling’s various stakeholders to “play an active role” in “protecting the physical and psychological integrity” of those involved in the sport.

A statement announcing the new campaign explained that the new campaign is part of the UCI’s “cycling integrity” programme, which was set up to amalgamate all of the organisations activities to “promote and strengthen integrity in cycling at all levels.” 

According to the UCI, cycling integrity consists of three pillars: clean cycling, safe cycling and fair cycling.

Each of these has a “preventative component” in the form of an educational programme, and a “reactive” component, which is the ability for abusive conduct to be reported and treated. 

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.

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