Tour de Romandie | Stage 1

Tour de Romandie | Stage 1

Today, we at AG Insurance - Soudal would like to congratulate Urska on her result, even though the start of the day in Romandie wasn’t quite what we had hoped for.

For sporting reasons and in order to defend our world tour ranking, the team decided to start the race. However, we regret the disqualification of the five World Tour teams, and we stand in solidarity with them as they stood up for protecting the rights of all teams. Important measures like this should be discussed on an appropriate time in advance, and in a clear and transparant process where all stakeholders are truly represented and where teams can explain and defend their stakes. We believe in a model of collaboration to keep cycling economically viable for all stakeholders, including the teams.

A nice and well-organized race like the Tour of Romandie deserves to have the best teams and riders competing each other.