Last Friday, the writer pointed out the difference in broadcast quality between the women's tour of Chongming Island and the men's tour of Guangxi, highlighting the lower standards applied to the women's race. But ignoring the Guangxi tour organizers dealing with their own women's race is at a level that, if not so sad, is almost comical.

It was not ideal to see only the last 2 kilometers of Stage 19 of the tour of Chongming Island – but overall, the quality and length of the live broadcast of that race, but compared with the six-day men's stage race, which had no broadcast of the women's one-day race at all and enjoyed 70 to 90 minutes of live broadcast every day, neglect was even more obvious. "I'm not going to do that," he said.

To be fair, the situation has not deteriorated since the last edition of the race in 2019, but the women's race was also not broadcast – but when the Guangxi tour returned from a 3-year suspension due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it did not get even better.

The forested karst mountains south of Guilin provided a beautiful backdrop for the Men's final stage and would have been created for an equally fascinating broadcast of the women's race, but no live footage was produced. And unlike in 2019, the men's broadcast did not even include a replay of the women's sprint finish.

When other women's WorldTour races did not offer live broadcasts in the past, they took advantage of the opportunity to provide frequent live updates, for example via Twitter. However, while Tour of Guangxi's Twitter account regularly updates the men's race, it did not mention that there was a women's race before or during the race, only tweeting the winners of the Top 3 and various secondary classifications after the finish. If UCI's Women's WorldTour had not been updated on its own website, there would have been no live information at all.

In addition, the Women's event website saw the last update shortly after the 2019 edition, when photos of the finish Sprint were added. The front and center race dates are for the 2018 edition, the list of participating teams is a strange combination of teams from 2017, 2018, and 2019, and the race results page only shows the results from 2017. Almost the only redemption feature is that the full result was available very soon after the race ended.

Needless to say, this treatment will not only knock the Uci mandated minimum 45 minutes of live coverage bar, but it will pass far below, so the regulator of Bar World Cycling will have to make strong demands on organisers to maintain the 2024 WWT spot, and women's World Cycling will have to do more. The case of demotion of a race after failing to comply with the minimum standards of the red tour is very strong.