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Mitchelton-SCOTT withdraws from eight races on COVID-19 fears

  • Ron 

Following extensive discussions, Mitchelton-SCOTT has made the decision to withdraw its mens’ and womens’ teams from a number of European races in the month of March, regardless of the individual Government Regulations in place.

The withdrawl will include the following races:

  • Strade Bianche (men and women)
  • GP Industria (men)
  • Paris-Nice (men)
  • Tirreno-Adriatico (men)
  • Ronde van Drenthe (women)
  • Danilith Nokere Koerse (women)
  • Milan-SanRemo (men)
  • Trofeo Alfredo Binda (women)

The UCI and these races have each been notified of the decision. During this period, the situation will be closely monitored and decisions for the following period will be made.

The main reasons for these withdrawals are listed below:

  • Mitchelton-SCOTT Team Doctors and the wider team have a duty of care to protect health and wellbeing of all their riders and staff.  They will not have any input into, or control over, the measures that race organisers may or may not put in place to manage the COVID-19 risks.
  • The team is a moving, international logistical puzzle, with staff and riders travelling between different countries with different health systems and strategies around COVID-19.  Constant travel will increase the health risks and make management of logistics, potential quarantine periods, etc, extremely difficult.
  • To withdraw any additional impact Moitchelton-SCOTT as a team, either via illness or injury, may put on national and international health systems and hospitals.

Whilst the team has put in all the preparations and are eager to race, as an organisation they believe this is the best way to ensure they adhere to their duty of care to riders and staff, before returning to business as usual as soon as possible.

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