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No source confirms five teams withdrew from Tour of Chongming Island or that the UCI dropped mandatory participation there. What is confirmed: the women's Tour of Guangxi is cancelled for 2026 after the provincial government pulled funding.
The men's Tour of Guangxi survives — running October 13-18 2026, with 2027 also planned. Tour of Chongming Island still sits on the 2026 UCI Women's World Tour calendar as the season closer, 13-15 October, with nothing in the record showing team pullouts or a rule reversal. A government cutting a budget line is not the same story as a peloton walking away from a race, and conflating them invents a crisis that the calendar doesn't show.
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