UCI & Grand Tour organisers move closer to accord

By Tim Maloney, European Editor

Two recent meetings between the UCI and the Grand Tour organisers over the last weeks may have resulted in some progress towards an agreement that will bring both parties together for 2006. On July 26 in Aigle, Switzerland, and then on July 29 in Paris, meetings between Mr. Martin Desprez, Vice Chairman of Editions Amaury and Patrice Clerc, President of A.S.O., which represented Groupe Amaury, RCS and Unipublic, as well as Hein Verbruggen, President of the UCI, have resulted in the following points, which now have to be reviewed by the ProTour teams before moving forward to a final agreement. But now after a year of conflicts between the UCI and the Grand Tour organisers over the ProTour, various elements have evolved from these recent discussions that look promising.

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