Cycling-Tour de France organisers ASO to withdraw from UCI’s calendar (Reuters)
Tour de France organisers ASO (Amaury Sport Organisation) are withdrawing from the International Cycling Union’s elite calendar in 2017 because of a disagreement over the reform of the calendar and the selection of teams, they said on Friday. The ASO said the reform of the World Tour means that the 2017 elite system will a closed circuit and that it wants a system based on ‘sporting criteria’.