The organisers of the Tour de France have stated {that a} ‘Management Room’ car, which was due for use by Visma-Lease a Bike, won’t be authorised “inside any premises of the occasion”.
The Management Room has been designed to behave as a “central assortment level of real-time information throughout the Tour de France”, permitting the workforce to analyse all information “in a single place” and “make the very best tactical choices, rapidly and precisely”.
The car was unveiled by the workforce on Thursday and the UCI introduced that it might be “finishing up verifications” to make sure the transformed van complied with rules on the identical day.
Forward of the primary stage, organisiers Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO) launched a press release, noting: “The Staff Visma-Lease a Bike ‘management room’ car shall not be authorised inside any of the premises of the occasion and shall subsequently not bear a car acceditation”.
Biking Weekly understands that the workforce didn’t apply for accreditation.
Visma-Lease a Bike referred to as the car, which was produced in collaboration with the workforce’s primary sponsor – enterprise software program specialists Visma – and Dutch on-line sportbetting firm, BetCity, the “first ever command centre in biking”.
When asserting its investigation, biking’s governing physique cited Article 1.3.006bis, which pertains to Onboard know-how.
The UCI guidelines state that units which seize or transmit information on positioning, nonetheless or transferring photos, or mechanical info are permitted. Units which seize information on coronary heart fee, physique temperature and sweat fee are additionally permitted, however the “authorisation is… restricted to transmission protocols which allow solely the rider involved to view the info throughout a contest”.
The rules additionally state that “the authorised capturing and transmitting of knowledge as supplied below this text shall not allow a rider to view information of one other rider”, additionally noting that groups shall solely entry the info of their riders, “until info… is publicly obtainable”.
In its assertion, the UCI added: “Our precedence is to keep up the integrity of the game, guaranteeing sporting equity, equitable entry to know-how and the primacy of man over machine. The UCI is dedicated to upholding these rules and can take acceptable measures primarily based on the findings of the investigation.”
At time of writing, the UCI has not but launched an extra assertion on the outcomes of its “verifications”.
