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Five teams were excluded from the 2025 Tour de Romandie Féminin for refusing a single-rider GPS pilot test. Two years after Muriel Furrer lay unnoticed for 85 minutes at the 2024 UCI Road World Championships, the holdup on mandatory tracking isn't technical — it's about who owns the data and who's liable when something goes wrong.
The UCI has already run full-event tracking at the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, so the hardware works. What's missing is agreement: Lidl called for "cooperation rather than coercion" at Tour de Romandie Féminin, and by early September 2026 the AIGCP, AIOCC and CPA still hadn't produced a joint proposal for the Professional Cycling Council. Lappartient has capped the data to speed and position only, trying to defuse the commercial fears, and warned the UCI "will have no option but to enforce" tracking if stakeholders can't settle it themselves before Montréal.
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The UCI condemns refusal of some teams to participate in test of GPS safety tracking technologyTwo years after Furrer's death – GPS, radio, route: the safety debate in cyclingUCI takes next step towards GPS rider tracking in professional cyclingGPS tracking devices to become mandatory as Lappartient warns 'UCI will have no option but to enforce'The UCI confirms introduction of GPS rider safety tracking system at 2025 UCI Road World Championships
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