The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) has announced that the RideLondon Classique will be included in the UCI Women's WorldTour calendar for the 2023 season.
At its meeting in June 2022, the UCI Management Committee decided to suspend the UCI Women's WorldTour status for the British women's stage race and make its registration conditional on the provision of firm proof of compliance with the requirements for TV broadcasting – according to the UCI rules and the UCI Women's WorldTour organisers' specifications – for events in this flagship series for women's road cycling.
In the 2022 edition of the event, the event organiser did not provide the required live TV coverage for each stage, but only for the last stage. This constituted a breach of the UCI Regulations and of the specifications that every organiser of the UCI Women's WorldTour is required to respect.
As the organiser has provided evidence of contractual commitments to broadcast all stages of the race live on TV in 2023, the RideLondon Classique is back on the calendar for the world's most prestigious events in women's cycling.
For the UCI, daily live TV coverage of UCI Women's WorldTour events is fundamental to the continued international development of the UCI Women's WorldTour and women's cycling.
The next edition of the RideLondon Classique will take place from 26 to 28 May 2023.
The UCI recalls that in addition to the UCI International Road Calendar, the 2023 calendars of numerous disciplines are published on its website. A list of these calendars is included in the press release that was issued at the end of the UCI Management Committee meeting held in Wollongong (Australia).