{"id":92652,"date":"2020-02-08T11:25:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/?p=92652"},"modified":"2020-02-08T11:25:21","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T16:25:21","slug":"womens-cycling-teams-launch-new-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/2020\/02\/08\/womens-cycling-teams-launch-new-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Women’s cycling teams launch new association"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of hard work behind the scenes a group of professional women’s cycling teams have launched a new association called UNIO which aims to safeguard and promote their interests worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Founding members of the association include Boels Dolmans Cycling Team, Bigla-Katusha, Canyon-SRAM and Parkhotel Valeknburg.<\/p>\n<p>One of UNIO\u2019s main missions is to represent the interests of all\u00a0Professional Women Cycling Teams registered with the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and to work together with all stakeholders for a better and united future for women\u2019s cycling.<\/p>\n<p>The slogan\u00a0Better Together\u00a0has been adopted as an ethos to grow the sport by uniting all stakeholders for a sustainable future. UNIO will seek to represent 100% of all Professional Women Cycling Teams competing at the UCI level and is inviting all the concerned teams to take up membership by visiting\u00a0www.unio.team<\/p>\n<p>UNIO\u2019S OBJECTIVES:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To contribute to the healthy development of women\u2019s cycling and advocate for fairness and equality by all stakeholders;<\/li>\n<li>To promote the members towards the public and interested third-parties (sponsors, service providers, etc.);<\/li>\n<li>To develop grassroots women\u2019s cycling;<\/li>\n<li>To increase the popularity of Women\u2019s Professional Cycling in any field;<\/li>\n<li>To provide assistance to all members in any field of interest, such as the development of the sport of cycling, technical improvements, good practices in medicine and health, economic development, labour relationships, legal and contractual assistance, insurances, etc.;<\/li>\n<li>To improve economic opportunities for all members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UNIO\u2019S ACTIVITIES TO INCLUDE:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The representation of the interests of every member before the cycling governing bodies;<\/li>\n<li>The provision of expertise to all stakeholders;<\/li>\n<li>The provision of a platform for all members and the development of various services for them;<\/li>\n<li>The development of strong marketing and communication tools;<\/li>\n<li>The provision of legal services to all members.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ronny Lauke\u00a0\u2013 CANYON\/\/SRAM Racing<br \/>\n<em>UNIO President<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been involved in women\u2019s cycling for 12 years and what we\u2019ve missed until now is a united voice where all the teams can share their interest in the sport and cooperate with the UCI and race organisers for the better of the sport. In the work we\u2019ve done behind the scenes, we\u2019ve learnt there is a clear demand from all teams looking for an organisation to grow the sport.<br \/>\nWe presented the idea to the UCI and received positive feedback immediately.<\/p>\n<p>The sport cannot grow while everyone tries to hold onto their little piece of the sport, we have to unite all our interests which in turn will be to the benefit of all. \u00a0So today, we\u2019re very proud to present UNIO, the vehicle to ensure a sustainable future for all Professional Women Cycling Teams and cycling in general.<\/p>\n<p>Esra Tromp\u00a0\u2013 Parkhotel Valkenburg<br \/>\n<em>UNIO Vice President<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I think it\u2019s really important to have a voice that represents the teams and to work together with all the stakeholders to develop women\u2019s cycling. If we don\u2019t work together, some of the stakeholders won\u2019t be as happy as it\u2019s possible to be. If everybody works together, we can develop women\u2019s cycling into a really great product.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s cycling has so many opportunities because it\u2019s still underdeveloped. The potential is endless. We have to look at other sports, like football for example, and see their structures to learn from them and see how they\u2019ve grown their business and equality levels. We have to study other business models outside of cycling to grow the sport. But, first things first, UNIO is here and the time is now to do something.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re inviting other teams to become members of UNIO because the slogan\u00a0Better Together,\u00a0is really what we believe in. We have to have input from all kinds of teams to have representation across the board. Joining UNIO means you can have an impact on the sport. We\u2019re working to be better every day, and we have to do it together.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Campana\u00a0\u2013 Bigla Katusha Pro Cycling<br \/>\n<em>Founding Member<\/em><\/p>\n<p>UNIO is the result of one and a half years of work and it\u2019s great to see it being realized now. The formation of UNIO is an important day for all UCI women\u2019s teams. This is the first time in history all women\u2019s teams have a united voice in front of all stakeholders. We want to develop women\u2019s cycling to the next level and I\u2019m very confident that all people involved will do the best to have the most professional set up in the future. Many of us have been in the sport for a very long time and this is an exciting time to see the evolution of the sport into a modern product that society will be proud of.<\/p>\n<p>Danny Stam\u00a0– Boels Dolmans Cycling Team<br \/>\n<em>Founding Member<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For a long time, we\u2019ve all lived on our own small islands, moving in our own directions. Now we\u2019re coming together to form one voice. The formation of UNIO is to work with everyone to take women\u2019s cycling to a higher level. Women\u2019s cycling is not a short-term project, it\u2019s a long-term project and we\u2019ll only make an impact together with one voice. What we\u2019re creating is on trend with what\u2019s happening in the world and something that transcends cycling. I believe the time is now to build something special and fight for equality for professional women\u2019s sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a year of hard work behind the scenes a group of professional women’s cycling teams have launched a new association called UNIO which aims to safeguard and promote their interests worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":335,"featured_media":92507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1116,6483],"tags":[20883,19749,19748,19709,20884,16344,16462,13817,1091,20338,7503,20886,15115,220,19716,19741,20885,9478,15531],"class_list":["post-92652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-womens-cycling","tag-aerobic-exercise","tag-bigla-katusha","tag-boels-dolmans-cycling-team","tag-canyon-sram","tag-climate-change-mitigation","tag-cycling-2","tag-cyclist","tag-health","tag-katusha","tag-physical-exercise","tag-pro-cycling","tag-ronny-lauke","tag-sports","tag-sram","tag-sram-corporation","tag-sustainable-transport","tag-thomas-campana","tag-union-cycliste-internationale","tag-womens-cycling-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/CanyonSRAM.png?fit=678%2C376&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bikeworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}