Organizers showed that the Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa will be held in Pamplona on Thursday despite the considerations of the groups and the willingness of the cyclists The Cyclists ‘ Alliance (TCA) on whether there are adequate protocols for coVID-19 coronavirus. Runners left the start just before 16:00 local time in Spain.
The organization issued an official statement hours before the start of the race on Thursday afternoon explaining that only runners who have negative PCR tests will be able to participate. The final list to begin with included only 15 of the 25 first of the all indexed groups on the race website.
Runners in a number of groups were noticed signing up for the race, most dressed in protective masks.
“The organization of the Feminas de Navarra – Emakumeen Nafarroako Klasikoa 2020 needs to officially talk about the negative PCRs of cyclists and technical staff of the collectives that will start the race”, reads one from the organization.
The organization excluded the groups that did present the corresponding negative PCR tests from the race. In this way, it is scrupulously compliant with the fitness and protection protocol established through the fitness branch of the government of Navarra and the members of the organization are in constant contact with the main medical experts of the ICU.
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On the other hand, the organization has contacted the University Clinic of Navarra to expedite the procedures of the PCR tests to the excluded groups who wish to pass through them and thus be able to participate in the career “.
The TCA warned of the dangers of racing in the Navarre region of northern Spain and the lack of evidence of evidence between the body of workers and race teams. On Wednesday night, he asked the ICU to ensure that the organizers had followed the COVID-19 protocol.
CCC-Liv is scheduled to compete in one-day races on Thursday and Friday with a team led by Marianne Vos and Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio. However, they announced Thursday morning that they would not start racing due to fears about new coVID-19 instances and fears that other groups and organizers of the race would not have followed the UCI’s COVID-19 protocol to provide coverage and be virus-free. bubble for groups.
CCC-Liv stated that it had followed all protocols, adding a daily monitoring of the fitness of runners and mandatory RT-PCR staff and testing. In consultation with the doctors of their team, they did not start the two races in Pamplona and stayed in their protective bubble of the team in Spain and on Sunday turn to Durango-Durango.
However, the race organizers denied such accusations and had followed coVID-19 protocols.
“The CCC-Liv team, without submitting the corresponding RAP and without notice to the organization, has taken the decision not to participate in the race,” the organizers said.
“The organization categorically denies the reasons given through the aforementioned team to be part of the test. The organization also informed the team’s medical officials of all the documentation requested.”
Bizkaia-Durango announced this morning that it will not participate in today’s Nafarroako Emakumeen Klasikoa because it has not won the effects of the PCR tests carried out on its drivers and staff. They also stated that their participation in Friday’s Women’s Women’s Prayer will have the effects.
Trek-Segafredo’s Lucinda Brand will take part in one-day races in Spain and told dutch media outlet AD that there had been a lot of confusion in the race, between the groups and the runners, but that the organizers had promised that no number of bibs would do so. It will be given to runners or groups that cannot present negative results at the controls.
He also expressed fear that the control effects take more than two days to return and that controlled runners on Tuesday or Wednesday may not be able to run.
“At first, it seemed like the organization just didn’t know if the passengers had been checked or not,” Brand told AD. “The large groups and the federation were under pressure that they had to be able to decide whether the runners had been controlled or not. The organization then stated that the bibs would only be issued if there were control results.”
“We also had to wait for the effects to arrive before receiving the bibs. A small Spanish team tried this morning, but I wonder how they managed to get the effects on time because we also had to wait two. Days. I suppose everyone on the starting line will be tested.”
Brand warned that the position of common runners would go up for groups with smaller budgets.
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