‘The UCI have taken management of the colors’ – New UCI guidelines imply groups should keep away from all Grand Tour jersey colors in 2025
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A brand new UCI rule has obliged some groups to vary their jersey designs for the 2025 season, to keep away from trying an excessive amount of just like the leaders’ jerseys on the Grand Excursions.
The likes of EF Training-EasyPost and Visma-Lease a Bike have typically modified their colors for the boys’s and ladies’s Giro d’Italia and Tour de France to keep away from being the identical because the race chief’s pink and yellow jersey. The brand new UCI rule additionally covers the opposite classifications in Grand Excursions, such because the inexperienced factors jersey on the Tour de France and the often white finest younger rider jersey.
The new UCI rule apparently exists to assist UCI officers determine riders and so keep away from errors in race outcomes and penalties.
For different, non-Grand Tour stage races, the UCI rule makes it clear that race organisers are accountable for guaranteeing that the chief’s jerseys are sufficiently distinct from these of groups and nationwide champion’s jersey.
The brand new UCI rule flips the accountability to groups for the Grand Excursions. It was created on June 17 2024 and so comes into power for the 2025 season.
It states that “groups shall be accountable for guaranteeing that their jerseys are sufficiently completely different from the leaders’ jerseys for the person basic classification chief’s jersey, factors classification, king of mountain classification and youth classification in Grand Excursions and occasions of the UCI Girls’s WorldTour recognized by the UCI.”
It’s unclear which, if any Girls’s WorldTour races, can be affected in 2025 however will maybe embrace the equal of the boys’s three Grand Excursions.
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The UCI provides a caveat to their guidelines, saying: “The duty incumbent on groups shall be topic to organisers publishing data concerning their leaders’ jerseys at the least six months previous to the related occasion.”
The UCI has nonetheless to reply to Cyclingnews after being requested for particulars of the brand new guidelines and any adjustments to 2025 workforce colors.
In 2024 the UAE Group Emirates jersey regarded just like the perfect younger riders jersey on the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and Vuelta a Espana.
UAE Group Emirates instructed Cyclingnews they’ve added some black to their close to all-white design of 2024 however insisted this was their very own determination, somewhat than the brand new UCI rule, as they refreshed their design for the brand new season.
Nonetheless, UAE Group Emirates workforce supervisor Mauro Gianetti and different workforce managers weren’t comfortable about Grand Tour race organisers being given priority on jersey colors.
“It is a new UCI rule, who’ve taken management of the colors,” Gianetti instructed Cyclingnews earlier this yr.
“Eight groups have a blue jersey, there will be much more subsequent yr…”
No particular pointers for skilled workforce jersey design
Remco Evenepoel wears the white jersey alongside UAE Group Emirates within the 2024 Tour de France (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
Blue has turn into a prevalent color within the skilled peloton in recent times however most workforce jersey designs keep away from showing too just like the Giro d’Italia’ Azzurra’ factors jersey by including sponsor logos and different colors. It stays to be seen if this may fulfill the UCI and their new rule in 2025.
The UCI doesn’t have particular guidelines or pointers for skilled workforce jersey design and hues, because it does to guard the world champion’s rainbow jersey design, race chief, nationwide champion’s jerseys and World Cup chief’s jerseys.
Cyclingnews understands that groups needed to submit their jersey design to the UCI for approval earlier than September 30, with UCI guidelines suggesting a ultimate December 1 deadline. Groups are often requested to resolve any similarities in design by agreeing to modifications.
Groups have one so-called ‘everlasting’ design per season and adjustments may be requested, maybe to accommodate a significant new sponsor.
UCI guidelines enable for a most of three non permanent ‘various designs’ annually, as EF Training-EasyPost and Visma-Lease a Bike do, however they have to be submitted for approval “60 days earlier than the beginning date of the occasion at which it shall be worn.”
The UCI states that “Purposes could also be rejected for causes thought-about legitimate, together with with out being restricted to similarity to different workforce’s clothes, similarity to leaders’ jerseys, ill-compliance with UCI rules pertaining to jerseys, potential hurt to picture of biking, the occasions or the UCI.”
The UCI guidelines that “The identify, firm brand or trademark of the principal companion shall be preponderant (thicker characters) and positioned within the higher a part of the jersey, each on the entrance and the again.”
Two sponsor names may be inverted, whereas different sponsors and logos may be added and altered from one race or nation to a different.
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