UCI/GCP move to scupper breakaway plans

UCI chief Pat McQuaid is facing a challenge to his organisation's hegemony

UCI chief Pat McQuaid is facing a challenge to his organisation's hegemony (Image credit: Bettini Photo)

The UCI's Global Cycling Promotion (GCP) has made the first move in the anticipated battle between themselves and the potential breakaway cycling tour that is being drafted up by the Rothschild Group and the Gifted Group. The partnership between the latter pair has developed into a proposed new big money world tour called World Series Cycling that could revolutionise the sport, as Cyclingnews revealed earlier this month. The GCP has now moved to throw a spanner in the works by buying the internet domain names worldseriescycling.com, worldseriescycling.net and worldseriescycling.org, so that their rivals can't use them.