Relegation in Cycling Archives

EF-EasyPost’s CEO on World Tour Relegation Fight: “I will look forward to not racing like that”

November 14, 2022 at 1:33 pm4 min reading

Road cycling

EF Education-EasyPost managed to keep their seat in the World Tour after a tough fight in the last year of the three-year promotion/relegation cycle. The team’s CEO Jonathan Vaughters deemed the way of racing teams had to engage in to avoid relegation “absurd”. He intends…

Teams Scramble to Avoid Relegation

September 21, 2022 at 7:19 am5 min reading

Road cycling

As the cycling season races to a conclusion, cycling’s governing body confirmed that it will stick to its relegation system for the next round of WorldTour racing licenses. The UCI said in a statement released on September 9 that it would enforce its ranking system…

WorldTour Relegation Battle Causes Turmoil in Top Teams

April 11, 2022 at 10:47 am5 min reading

Road cycling

Most sports fans surely know what the word relegation means. Most often used in football and rugby, it refers to the mechanism whereby teams in the top league of the sport are dropped to a lower league if they finish last or second from last.…