Brent Copeland replaces Richard Plugge as AIGCP president after shake-up

Brent Copeland, team manager for Jayco AlUla
Brent Copeland, team manager for Jayco AlUla (Image credit: Team Jayco AlUla)

Brent Copeland, the Jayco-AlUla team manager, has been elected as the new president of the influential AIGCP, International Association of Professional Cycling Teams, replacing Richard Plugge of Visma-Lease a Bike after an extraordinary general assembly and vote in Milan last Friday.

Plugge was elected president of the AIGCP in 2021 and recently worked hard to create the independent SafeR race safety organisation but a number of teams called for him to quit last summer.

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Stephen Farrand
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Stephen is the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.