Audrey Cordon-Ragot praised the UCI`s decision to introduce a minimum salary for the top tier of women´s teams beginning in 2020. The French time trial champion, who is set to race with Trek-Segafredo next year, said that it was one of the most important steps toward improving the overall professionalism of women´s cycling. `It`s a big step that we are taking now,` Cordon-Ragot told Cyclingnews in an interview at the SportHotel, where the French national team was staying ahead of the 2018 Road World Championships in Innsbruck, Austria. `There is still a long road ahead because we have so many things still to improve in women`s cycling, but this is the first step to take, and it is so important.`ADVERTISEMENT UCI President David Lappartient told Cyclingnews in July that a two-tiered team system would be introduced in 2020 and that the top tier would be paid a minimum salary. In Innsbruck, he confirmed the two tiers - Women´s WorldTeams and Continental Teams - and that the top level would be required to pay riders a minimum salary equal to that of the men´s Professional Continental teams, currently set at just above EUR30,000. There will be five Women´s WorldTeams in 2020, and the minimum salary will be gradually phased in over a three-year period. The goal is to have 10 teams in 2021 and 15 teams by 2022. New team, new ambitions
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