The Girls’s WorldTour calendar will likely be one race shorter in 2025 after the information that the Tour of Scandinavia won’t happen this 12 months.
The organiser of the race shared a press release on the race’s web site this week confirming that the race had been cancelled and that the races’ mum or dad firm, Girls Tour of Norway AS, had been dissolved. The occasion had already not taken place in 2024 on account of monetary points. Based on the organiser the race had additionally obtained minimal help from broadcasters in Norway.
The assertion learn: “After final 12 months’s cancellation, laborious work has been achieved since final summer season to revive the WorldTour race. We had been nicely into the preparations with each the race idea, host municipalities, and never least worldwide TV distribution, which appears to be like very spectacular and is in place.
“Nonetheless, we should acknowledge that we’ve not succeeded in constructing a model that’s enticing sufficient to media, sponsors, and different vital stakeholders in Norway. There are not any nationwide TV channels in Norway, like NRK and Tv2, who want to distribute the race on TV regardless of us masking all manufacturing prices.
“With out nationwide TV protection, sponsors, and a federation missing enthusiasm to help the WorldTour race at residence, it turns into troublesome to ascertain a sustainable monetary platform and create the passion wanted, each internally and exterior, to ship knowledgeable biking race on the high stage.”
It continued: “We’ve dared to be revolutionary and have been an vital driver for the event of worldwide girls’s biking. We’re happy with what we’ve created and pleased to be remembered as probably the greatest and most recognised races on the ladies’s WorldTour calendar.”
Annemiek van Vleuten gained what’s now the ultimate version of the race in 2023, with Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig triumphing within the first version the 12 months earlier than. The Tour of Scandinavia was the successor to the occasion beforehand often called the Girls Tour of Norway which first befell in 2014. Earlier winners of the Girls Tour embody Marianne Vos, Lucinda Model and Anna van der Breggen. Vos gained the race on three separate events.
Regardless of shedding the Tour of Scandinavia, the ladies’s WorldTour calendar will lastly include a girls’s version of Milan-San Remo this 12 months, which can happen in March.
