The Cyclists’ Alliance and SVL Sports GmbH (SVL), the leading broker of personal and team insurance for riders in the elite cycling marketplace, formally announce a collaboration to offer supplemental insurance packages for women, along with a financial savings pension plan. These insurance packages and financial offerings are available to…
The transfer season for women’s professional road cycling began on June 1st. If you are in a UCI team, and you have the opportunity to move to another team which better suits your needs, you can break your existing contract and sign a new contract but only if you properly…
The 2018 UCI Women’s WorldTour “Spring Classics” have come and gone, with some great performances by our fellow women riders. One rider who missed all the action out on the road was the former World Champion Lizzie Deignan. Deignan announced earlier this season that she is placing her racing career…
The board of The Cyclists’ Alliance wants to thank each of you who has joined our association of professionals. Since becoming an official body in December 2017, some of the best and brightest athletes of our generation has come on board to help shape the future our sport. This is…
A recent legal ruling in Europe has changed the competitive landscape of organized sports, and expanded the rights and opportunities for athletes. Last December, two speed skaters successfully challenged long-held beliefs about the rights of athletes to participate in independent or non-federation sanctioned competition, by pursuing a complaint against the…
Marianne Vos isn’t just one of the most talented and successful riders of her generation, she has also been an outspoken voice for change in pro cycling. She broke into the Elite ranks at a very young age, and experienced first-hand many of the changes which currently define women’s professional…
For a sport to grow globally today, it must have a strategy to connect with fans in multiple ways. Television used to be the most important way which fans watched sports, but as the cable and satellite TV subscription model has fallen apart in the last few years, there is…
Women’s sports are among the fastest-growing in the global content marketplace. From tennis, to golf, to basketball and volleyball, women are changing how we experience sports as fans, and how sports investors and sponsors make profits. Among all the globally-recognized women’s sports, pro road cycling is an unpolished gem that…
Formed and backed by some of women’s cycling’s biggest names, the new international cycling union aims to be a resource and a cohesive voice for professional cyclists in order to promote and protect athlete safety and enhance professionalism within the sport. “We will work as a partner with the UCI and…
The inspiration to create The Cyclists’ Alliance started with our first survey. For the first time in our sport, we measured the issues professional women cyclists face and found they are universal; and that the only way to change our sport is to work together as a unified body of…
