While on the streets of France the best riders are riding the most important stage race in the world, in the secret rooms a even more important battle for the future of the UCI and cycling is going on. Everything revolves around the Reform of Cycling, announced by Pat McQuaid when he was president and then proposed again by Brian Cookson. We use the word proposal, because in fact till now no concrete step has been made: it would have start in 2015, then was postponed to 2017, but the situation is still far from becoming concrete.

A few days ago the news included in the latest draft was presented, dated June 10 and it is around this that the battle is developing: on one hand there is the UCI, on the other one new realities such as Velon (companies that contains 11 of the 17 World Tour teams) that have business and marketing at the center of their interests, then there is still ASO, locked in its fortress and determined to resist to the bitter end the onslaught of those seeking to participate in the division of television interests.

In particular, the confrontation is between Aso and UCI: French organizers have threatened to quit the World Tour in 2016 with all their races, which is equivalent to an exceptional heritage and history of sport, repeating a choice already put in place in 2005, in occasion of the ProTour birth. Within UCI a delicate position is the one of the Vice-President David Lappartient, who is also UEC and the French Federation chairman but especially is also President of the Commission of the Professional Cycling that, with some "hawks", would be on the side of Aso against UCI itself. Within ten days there will be a reckoning that, at this point, can not be painless: based on founded rumors gathered by tuttobiciweb, in case of defeat the UCI president Brian Cookson would meditating to submit his resignation. If UCI will win, however, other heads are destined to fall.