The Union Cycliste Internationale is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland.
Theo Bos is a Dutch former professional road and track cyclist. An Olympic silver medalist and five-time world champion, he is the brother of Olympic medalist in speed skating Jan Bos.
Visma–Lease a Bike is a Dutch professional bicycle racing team, successor of the former Rabobank. The team consists of four sections: ProTeam, Women's Team, Development Team, and cyclo-cross.
Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for the Belkin Pro Cycling team. He is perceived to be a climbing specialist, and to date his greatest achievements have been in the Giro d'Italia, where he placed fourth overall in 2002, tenth overall in the 2004, fifth overall in 2005 and won the Mountains classification with a seventh overall at the 2006 Giro d'Italia. He also won the Spanish National Championship road race in 2005. He has also won stages in the Tour de Suisse, the Vuelta a España, the Giro del Trentino and more recently he finished first on Mont Ventoux in the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2009.
The UCI WorldTour is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an annual ranking system based upon performances in these. The World Ranking was launched in 2009, and merged fully with its predecessor the UCI ProTour in 2011. UCI WorldTeams must compete at all events that were part of the tour prior to the 2017 expansion.
Team Novo Nordisk is an all-diabetic professional cycling team founded by CEO Phil Southerland and led by general manager Vassili Davidenko. It is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Tour of Hainan is an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Hainan Province, China. The race consists of nine stages and has been part of the UCI ProSeries since 2023, previously having been on the UCI Asia Tour. The event was first held in 2006. It was made a UCI 2.1 race from 2007 and upgraded to category 2.HC in 2009. The race was due to be part of the new UCI ProSeries in 2020, but the race was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2013 Danmark Rundt was a men's road bicycle race held from 31 July to 4 August 2013. It was the 23rd edition of the men's stage race, which was established in 1985. The race was rated as a 2.HC event and formed part of the 2013 UCI Europe Tour.
The 2013 season for the Belkin Pro Cycling team began in January at the Tour Down Under. As a UCI ProTeam, they were automatically invited and obligated to send a squad to every event in the UCI World Tour.
Ramon Sinkeldam is a Dutch cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.
Moreno Hofland is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2021 for the Rabobank Continental Team, LottoNL–Jumbo, Lotto–Soudal and EF Education–Nippo teams.
Kiel Reijnen is an American cyclist, who currently competes for American gravel team Trek Driftless. Reijnen previously competed in road racing between 2008 and 2021 for the Jelly Belly–Kenda, Team Type 1–Sanofi, UnitedHealthcare and Trek–Segafredo teams.
The 2014 Tour de Langkawi was the 19th edition of an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in Malaysia since 1996. The race was run at the highest category (apart from those races which make up the UCI World Tour, and was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.HC race as part of the UCI Asia Tour.
Mykhaylo Mykhaylovich Kononenko is a Ukrainian professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Sakarya BB Pro Team.
The 2014 Tour of Hainan was the 9th edition of the Tour of Hainan, an annual professional road bicycle racing stage race held in China. The race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC race, held as part of the 2013–14 UCI Asia Tour.
The 2014 Larry H. Miller Tour of Utah was the eleventh edition of the Tour of Utah, a seven-stage professional cycling race which took place from August 4–10, 2014. It covered 753.8 miles, and 57,863 feet of total climbing. 16 men's professional cycling teams competed in the 2014 edition, with 6 of these teams also being featured in the 2014 Tour de France, with riders representing 24 different countries. For the second year in succession, the race was won by Tom Danielson of the Garmin–Sharp squad.
Roompot–Charles was a Dutch UCI Professional Continental men's cycling team. The team's principal sponsor was Roompot Vakanties, a Dutch holiday company. The team's first season was the 2015 cycling season, during which the team was invited to participate in UCI World Tour races including the 2015 Eneco Tour and the 2015 Tour of Flanders, as well as various other spring classics races. The team only hired Dutch cyclists, the most prominent of whom was Johnny Hoogerland. Roompot's debut race was the 2015 Vuelta a Mallorca stage race. The team's first win came in August 2015 in the Tour du Limousin, where Maurits Lammertink won a bunch sprint.
Jakub Mareczko is an Italian road cyclist of Polish origin, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Team Corratec. A sprinter, Mareczko was described by the Italian national cycling coach Davide Cassani as one of the best young hopes for Italian cycling.
The 2014 Paris–Tours was the 108th edition of the Paris–Tours cycle race and was held on 12 October 2014. The race started in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines and finished in Tours. The race was won by Jelle Wallays of the Topsport Vlaanderen–Baloise team.
