The UCI ProSeries is the second tier men's elite road cycling tour. It was inaugurated in 2020 . The series is placed below the UCI World Tour , but above the various regional UCI Continental Circuits .
4-501: Euskaltel–Euskadi is a Spanish UCI ProTeam road cycling team founded in 2008. It was initially an amateur team, but upgraded to Continental level in 2018. Having spent two years as a UCI Continental team , the team registered their interest to become a UCI ProTeam for the 2020 season, and were granted a ProTeam licence in December 2019. In February 2020, it was announced that Spanish telecommunications company Euskaltel were to become
8-641: The major changes is the introduction of a new division of races called the UCI ProSeries. With the introduction of the ProSeries, the UCI .HC road races disappeared from the calendar. In October 2019, the UCI published the 2020 UCI International Road Calendar, including the ProSeries. The inaugural season of the ProSeries was planned to include 57 events, which were formerly World Tour, .HC or .1 events, but many were cancelled due to
12-586: The team's title sponsor for four years, from that year's Tour of the Basque Country – later cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain . The company had sponsored the previous Euskaltel–Euskadi team between 1998 and 2013, before the team disbanded. Sources: UCI ProSeries In December 2018, the UCI announced various reforms to the structure and organisation of men's professional road racing. One of
16-469: The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic of 2020–21. In events of the ProSeries, UCI WorldTeams may participate, up to a maximum of 70% in European races and 65% in other races. The rest of the teams participating may be UCI ProTeams , UCI Continental teams , or National teams. The inaugural UCI ProSeries calendar consisted of 57 events, of which 30 were one-day races (1.Pro) and 27 were stage races (2.Pro). Due to
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