As defined by UCI rules, the first round of competition used to qualify for the sprint competition is the flying 200 m time trial.

However, Ivan Basso, who was Team CSC's 2006 Tour de France general classification contender was removed from the team prior to the beginning of the Tour according to the UCI ProTour rules due to his possible involvement in the Operación Puerto doping case, an involvement confirmed by Basso himself in April 2007.

The UCI issues racing licenses to riders and enforces disciplinary rules, such as in matters of doping.

A racing bicycle, also known as a road bike, is a bicycle designed for competitive road cycling, a sport governed by according to the rules of the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ).

The UCI rules were altered in 1934 to exclude recumbent bicycles.

The UCI rules for these bikes are slightly less prescriptive than those for " massed start road races " ( see rules 1. 3. 020 to 1. 3. 023 ).

Triathlon bicycles are governed by International Triathlon Union ( ITU ) rules, which allow more recent technological developments than do the UCI rules.

The UCI rules currently specify that a racing bicycle have the following characteristics,:

Riders ' age categories for cyclocross under UCI rules are currently determined by their age on 1 January which lies in the middle of the international season, i. e. they compete in the same category that they would be in for the following road season.

Races run under UCI rules must have courses that are always at least 3 m wide to encourage passing at any opportunity, however sections of singletrack are common for small races in the USA and Great Britain.

The following are rules that have been put in place by the UCI that are either specific to or have particular effect on cyclo-cross bicycles.

Since 2011, under the UCI World Tour rules, all ProTour teams are guaranteed a place in all three events, and obliged to participate.

Probenecid was in the IOC list, but not in the UCI list, and rule number 35 of the 1988 Tour regulations stated that the doping test would be carried out in accordance with the UCI rules.

Under the controversial new 2006 UCI rules, elite, U23, and Junior Expert riders at UCI sanctioned races, are allowed technical assistance, but only in designated zones and only by an authorized team mechanic.

This increase also spawned a popular backronym of UCI: " Under Construction Indefinitely.

Kyle and his students had been experimenting with fairings for upright bicycles, also banned by the UCI.

Version 6 also supports the Universal Chess Interface ( UCI ).

UCI may also refer to:

The company also owns and manages office buildings in Milpitas, San Jose, Sunnyvale, Downtown San Diego, Mission Valley, San Diego, La Jolla Village / University City, Sorrento Mesa, Del Mar Heights, Newport Center, UCI locations, and West Los Angeles.

The UCI also manages the classification of races and the points ranking system in various cycling disciplines including mountain biking, road and track cycling, for both men and women, amateur and professional.

Robert Barcia, also known as ' Hardy ' and Roger Girardot ( 22 July 1928 in Paris – 12 July 2009 in Créteil ), was a French politician, leader of the Union Communiste Internationaliste ( UCI ), a Trotskyist organisation that is better known by the name of its weekly paper Lutte Ouvrière ( Workers ' Struggle ), which is also the name of the UCI's public party, whose spokeswoman is Arlette Laguiller.

There is also a Gala Bingo venue and a cinema with sixteen screens which was formerly owned by UCI, but as a result of a ruling by the Office of Fair Trading concerning the merger of UCI and Odeon Cinemas the theatre was sold to Empire Cinemas.

Track cycling was also the sport featured at Le Parc and the trail of the Porte de Saint-Cloud hosted the UCI Track Cycling World Championships in 1900.

UCI in Ireland also operates a chain of 5 cinemas operating under the Storm Cinemas brand.

In some countries ( including the United States, so long as it is not a UCI event ) riders are also permitted to race in cyclo-cross events using mountain bikes ( generally without bar ends ), at least in low-level competition, but this is not currently allowed in events on the international calendar.

The University of Illinois also continued development of PLATO, eventually setting up a commercial on-line service called NovaNET in partnership with University Communications, Inc. CERL was closed in 1994, with the maintenance of the PLATO code passing to UCI.

Downhill mountain biking also witnessed British success with Steve Peat becoming the Nissan UCI Downhill World Champion, and also becoming the most successful downhill racer ever with seventeen World Cup wins.

It was also the location of the UCI Road World Championships in 2000.

Zolder has also been used for cycling events including the UCI Road World Championships twice in ; 1969 and 2002 and the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 1970 and 2002.

JCAP also draws on the expertise and capabilities of key partners from Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, UCSB, UCI, and UCSD, and the Stanford Linear Accelerator.

In 2009 UCI and organizers had agreement that events will be counted towards UCI World Ranking, which also included, in its first two seasons, Professional Continental teams.

The race was also rated lower by the UCI, and had a reduced field.

The new definition effectively banned recumbents from UCI events for a combination of tradition, safety, and economic reasons.

Charles Mochet died a short time after the ban was enacted, still protesting against the UCI decision, and the firm continued to make recumbents under his widow and, later, Georges Mochet until at least 1941 for a limited number of customers.

The UCI ban on recumbent bicycles and other aerodynamic improvements virtually stopped development of recumbents for four decades and remains in force.

With the recent lifting of the UCI ban on disc brake use in cyclocross racing, bike component and frame manufacturers have immediately started developing and testing race-level cyclocross bikes equipped with disc brakes.

In September 2009, the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ), the governing body of pro cycling, voted to phase in a ban on the use of team radios in men's elite road racing.

During the early 1990s in individual pursuit events, some riders, most notably Graeme Obree, adopted a straight-armed Superman-like position with their arms fully extended horizontally, but this position was subsequently outlawed by the Union Cycliste Internationale ( UCI ), the sport's ruling body.

While at UCI, Reines extended the research interests of some of his graduate students into the development of medical radiation detectors, such as for measuring total radiation delivered to the whole human body in radiation therapy.

According to a UCI obituary, during his wait for a supernova to explode, he put signs on some of his large neutrino detectors, calling them " Supernova Early Warning Systems ".

Customarily, UCI assigns some tasks to the user interface that have traditionally been handled by the engine itself.

Several race directors have tried to limit bunny hopping by placing barriers in pairs or in triple ( although under UCI rule no more than two barriers can appear in succession ), however this hasn't stopped some of the best bunny-hoppers from getting over them.

Originally, UCI and the organisers of the Grand Tours had been unable to come to terms on the 2006 UCI ProTour, with the result that the status of both the Grand Tours and some of the other races organised by those organisations behind the Grand Tours was unclear until well into the season, but they were eventually included.

The primary reason was that grand tour organisers wanted more freedom to invite popular national teams ( e. g., UCI Professional Continental teams ) and the right to exclude some UCI ProTour teams such as Unibet. com.

UCI cinemas in Ireland have also joined the Odeon chain, and while they initially retained the UCI brand name, evidence of the merger became apparent, for example when booking tickets by credit card, the name " Odeon " appears, as well as some dual branded campaigns.

While some cinemas have been rebranded, Odeon still operates some cinemas under the UCI ( UCI. ie )/ Storm ( StormCinemas. ie ) in Ireland.

While at Paramount McGrath led the development of stadium-seated cinemas building 800 + stadium screens in Canada at Famous Players, eventually achieving a 50 % market share ; while spurring the re-birth of the contemporary international cinema business building some 1, 300 screens in stadium " megaplexes " in 13 countries at United Cinemas International ( UCI ).