Coronavirus and cycling: A timeline of the pandemic's effect on the sport
From the first outbreak in De🧸cember to mass race cancellations
In early December, 2019, the first cases of a mysterious new respiratory illness emerged in Hubei province in China and despite the Chinese government's best efforts, the disease now known as Covid-19 caused by a new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has spread toꦆ every country on the planet.
In four months the virus has moved from an unknown animal source to the level of a global pandemic, declared by the on March 11, 2020. ꦦ;
Cyclingnews f🦂ollowed th♉e course of the outbreaks as they affected the sport of cycling.
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January 27, 2020 – first race postponed
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Hainan was postponed due to coronavirus as the number of global cases approached 3,000 with 80 deaths and 37 cases confirmedജ outside of China, and 11 countries affected.
February 11, 2020 – Olympic fears
The Olympic organisers dismiss fꦐears coronavirus could derail Tokyo 2020 Games despiꦅte the number of cases worldwide rising to 43,000 with over 1,000 🏅deaths and 395 cases confirmed outside of China. The virus had spread to 24 different countries.
February 21, 2020 – More Chinese races postponed
The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:UCI postpones the Tour of Chongming Island, a Women's WorldTour event, which was due to take place from May 7-9, the Tour of Zhoushan Island - scheduled for May 12-14 - and the Tour of Taiyuan - scheduled for May 31 as the virus tally hit 76,000 cases, 1200 outside China, 2200 deaths and 26 countri🎃es affected.
The first three cases were confirmed in Italy and soon worri𒊎es about RCS Sport's spring races beg💟an to form.
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February 26, 2020 – Coronavirus infections take off in Italy
Over the course of a week, the number of cases in Italy exploded to more than 300, and RCS Sport director M🦩auro Vegni expressed concern over the races. Strade Bianche and Trofeo Alfredo Binda were also under threat as Italian officials scrambled to clamp down the region.
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February 27, 2020 – UAE Tour stopped as coronavirus hits entourage
The 168澳洲💜5最新开奖结果:final UAE Tour stages were called off after two coronavirus cases were confirmed in the race entourage. The initial reports pointed to Italy as the source of the virus at the race, with Italian staff likely infected before coming to the race. The race hotels in Abu Dhabi were locked down, with riders, staff and j♐ournalists confined first to the hotel then to their rooms.
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- Final UAE Tour stages called off after two coro﷽navirus cases confirmed
- Chris Froome among♐ riders being tested for coronavirus at cancelled UAE Tour
- Italian races under further threat of cancellation followin📖g confirmed coronavirus cases aꦡt UAE Tour
- Mor🐓kov in isolation after travelling from UAE Tour to Berlin Track World Championships
- Abu Dhabi health department says 167 t♓ests꧑ come back negative for Coronavirus
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March 1, 2020 – Most UAE Tour teams allowed to leave as coronavirus isolated to one floor of hotel
Some teams were 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:allowed to leave but UAE Team Emirates, Cofidis, Grou꧃pama-FDJ and Gazprom-Rusvelo were kept quarantined in the hotel as six people from the Russian and UAE teams tested positive for the coronavirus.
The lack of information and isolation was a 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:source of frustration.
By this point the virus had infꦯected over 87,000 worldwide, w🤪ith 7169 confirmed cases outside China, almost 3,000 deaths and 58 counties impacted.
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- Authorit𝔉ies report six new Covid-19 positives among UAE Tou🌺r entourage
- Cofidis: 'Please don't forget us' as coronavirus quarantine conti⛎nues
- Italian races on brink of can🅺cellation as government and teams express concern about coronavirus
- Paris-Nice set to take place despite coro📖navirus concerns
- EF Pro Cycling request their withdrawal fr𝄹om Italian spring races over coronavirus concerns
March 4, 2020 – teams withdraw from racing
Teams withdraw en mas💦se from racing to pre♐vent both the spread of the virus and risk of riders being quarantined in hotels.
Meanwhile,🐽 the riders cooped up in the hotel in Abu Dhabi received gaming consoles, bikes and stationary trainers to help pass the time.
- Cofidis and Groupama🌞-FDJ to rem🐻ain in UAE coronavirus quarantine until March 14
- C💙oronavirus: Italian races face cancellation after government suspends spo🌃rting events until April 3
- Jumbo-Visma pull out of Strade Bianche and GP Lar꧅ciano over coronavirus concerns
- Coronavirus: Mitchelton-Scott withdraw from all men's and women's racing ဣuntil March🍰 22
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- RCS Sꦕport ♛admit Italian races could be cancelled due to risks of coronavirus
- Coronavirus: Team doctors request cancellation of Par🃏is-Nice and Italian races
- Four riders reported to be positive for cor🅘onavirus at ⛎UAE Tour
- Coronavirus: Meeting in Siena to decide fate꧟ ൩of Strade Bianche
- Coronavirus: A🔴stana withdraw from Strade Bianche, Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico
- Team Ineos withdraw from racing until Volta a C📖atalunya
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March 5, 2020 – Strade Bianche cancelled
RCS Sport 168澳洲5🍨最新开奖结果:announced the cancellation of Strade Bianche as the number of infections in Italy t꧟opped 3,000 with 107 deat♏hs.
March 6, 2020 – Milan-San Remo cancelled for first time since World War II
Tirreno-Adriatico, Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Sicily, GP Larciano, Trofeo Alfredo Binda and Settimana Coppi e Bartali are 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:postponed or cancelled as the 🗹entirety of Lombardy region is under government-declared isolation.
- Philippe Gilbert on 🐻loss of Milan-San Remo: public health comes first
- Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-San Remo postponed due to coron💟avirus
- Coronavirus: UAE Team Emirates pull out of Paris-Nice,෴ Tirreno-Adriatico and Milan-San Remo
March 7, 2020 – Paris-Nice goes on as planned
168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Nice ge꧃ts underway without eight WorldTour teams despite the number of coronavirus cases 🔯in France rising to 613 with nine deaths.
Worldwide the🐓 numbꦆer of cases exceeded 100,000 with 93 countries affected and 3,400 dead.
March 9, 2020 – Paris-Nice 'behind closed doors' as Gazprom-Rusvelo riders transported to hospital with Covid-19
A government ban on gatherings of more than 1,000 people in France forced Paris-Nice organisers to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:run the race 'behind closed doors' - limiting access for fans to riders at the startꦺ and finish of all stages.
ꦡFrance reported the second highest number of coronavirus infections in Europe behind Italy with 1,116 con🦂firmed cases and 19 deaths but the race continued.
Dmitry Strakhov (Gazprom-Rusvelo) is the first professional cyclist to be publicly confirmed as positive for the coronavirus. He and two teammates were 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:transferred from the Abu Dhabi hotel to a hospital. They 🧔were said to be in a good condition♔.
March 11, 2020 – Paris-Nice continues
Race director Christian Prudhomme insisted 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Nice would be completed despite coronavirus epidemic despite speculation that the town of Nice would 🐻prevent the race from coming there. In Northern France, the Tour de Normandie was cancelled.
The Volta a Catalunya organisers 168澳洲5最新开奖ﷺ结果:planned to employ the same distancing strategy as ASO used for Paris-Nice to ensure the WorldTour ra🍬ce could go on as planned.
Meanwhile in Belgium, there was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:increased concern about the T🍰our of Flanders as the number of cases rose to 239 in the country.
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- Coronavirus: Tour of Flanders organiser 'concerned' at prospect of cancel♌lation
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March 12, 2020 – Belgian government stops all sporting events in March
The Belgian Minister of Sport Ben Weyts consulted with the various sporting federations on Thursday i🎐ncluding Cycling Vlaanderen and decided to halt all sporting events except professional football for the month of March.
Fernando Gaviria 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:confirmed he had tested positive for coronavirus in a social media pos𓂃t from the UAE, where he is hospitalised but feeling fine, while most of Gazprom-RusVelo were allowed t♈o leave after completing their 14-day quarantine in Abu Dhabi.
Organisers of the Volta a Catalunya 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:announced the race would be put off rather t😼han trying to employ the isolation measures 🍷used by Paris-Nice.
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March 13, 2020 – Giro d'Italia postponed
As Italy's coronavirus situation remained dire and Hungary issued a declaration of a state of emergency, preventing the Budapest Grande Departe from going on, RCS Sport was forced to announce that the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d'Italia would be postponed.
The new date for the race will be announced by April 3 as the UCI will need to reschedule almost 🦩two months worth of worldwide races.
The ASO, meanwhile, continued Paris-Nice even in light of the French Federation stopping all cycling events with immediate effect (except Paris-Nice), Bahrain McLaren 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:did not start stage 6 to from Sorgues to Apt, while𓄧 Israel Start-Up Nation decided not to take the start of stage 7.
Cape Epic in South Africa, the Women's Tour in Great Britain, Tour of the Gila and a number of other race in the USA and all racing in Canada through May ♈1 were cancelled.
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- Paris-Nice to end on Saturday to helpಞ fighꦰt the spread of coronavirus
- Giro d'Italia stages in Hungary cancelleꦓd due to coronavirus fears
- Giro d'I🗹talia postponed due to coronavirus pandemic
- Bahrain-McLaren pull out of Paris-Nice over coronavirus conc꧒erns
- Bar🃏det frustrated with riding on aꦦt Paris-Nice during coronavirus pandemic
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March 14, 2020 – Redlands Bicycle Classic cancelled
As the coronavirus case numbers in the USA increased to over 2,000, the Redlands Bicycle Classic joined the list o🐟f cancelled races and USA Cycling was forced to consider how the mass-pos🧔tponements would affect Olympic Selections as the organisers of Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games insisted the event would go forward.
- Coronavirus: Redlands Bicꦿycle Classic joins list of cancell⭕ed US races
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March 15, 2020 – UCI suspend all racing until April 3
Governments began taking sweeping action worldwide to shut down movement of people to contain the pandemic. The UCI 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:suspended all races until at🔴 least April 3, USA Cycling through April 5. The ASO and Flanders Classics cast doubt on the running of Tour of Flanders and Paris-Roubaix and even the Ardennes Classics as a result♉.
Riders in Italy and Spain faced problems training as officials discouraged cycling over fears that an accident would take up medical services needed for coronavirus sufferers. With no races, Mathieu van der Poel wondered why riders are even training.
- U🌟CI announces suspension of all races 'until at least April 3'
- Coronavirus: Paris-Roubaix and Tour of Flanders unlikely to run, 🌳say race organisers
- USA Cy🐬cling suspends sanctioned racing through April 5
- Van der Poel: What are we training for in the next ▨few weeks?
- 'For now, planning is useles🐓s' says Groupama-FDJ boss Marc Madiot
- Coronavirus: Australian National Track Championsh🐼ips postponed
- Coronavi𒅌rus: It will be complicated to organise the Ardennes Classics, admits Prudhomme
March 17 – Flanders, Roubaix, Flèche and Liège postponed
The Tour of Flanders, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Paris-Roubaix and the men’s and women’s Flèche Wallonne and Liège-Bastogne-Liège have been officially postponed 🍃due to the coronavirus pandemic. The races🅰 were due to take place on April 5, 12, 22 and 26, respectively.
The announcements come after a slew of late-Apri🐽l and early-May races were also postponed or cancelled, including the WorldTour races Itzulia Basque Country and Tour de Romandie and all British events through the end of April, including the Tour de Yorkshire.
- Van Avermaet: Public health is more importantও than cycling at the moment
- Coronavirus: Race c🦹ancellations expan🎉d into late April and May
- Van Vleuten leaves altitude camp just as 🉐coronavirus restrictions close in
- Coronaviꦗrus: Higuita😼, Quintana face isolation after returning home from Paris-Nice
- Jesper H𓄧ansen: I want to race to try to earn myself a new contract
- Bradley Wiggins: Coronavirus could be de🧜vastating for riders' l✅ivelihoods
- Trentin: Coronavirus goes beyond cycling, beyond spo🌸rt
- Ulissi: We have to accept that the 2020 season could be cancelled alt💧ogether
- British Cycling suspends all events until at lea💮st April 30
- WADA monitoring ꦚanti🐟-doping testing gaps as coronavirus locks down entire countries
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March 18 – Amstel Gold Race and Scheldeprijs join list of postponments
More races joined the list of postponments as April's Scheldeprijs and Amstel Gold Race were called off. The races were due to be held on April🎉 8 and 19, respectively.
Elsewhere, discussions about the Giro d'Italia's prospective new date got under way, with UCI President David Lappartient suggesting Autumn as a potential position for the Grand Tour as♌ well as the poꦰstponed Monument Classics.
- Australian nation🦩al team staff member tesꦓts positive for coronavirus
- Ellingworth: Teams have to be ready 🔜for when racing restarts
- Coronavirus: Lappartient says Monuments🍎 and shortened Giro d'Italia could be held in Autumn
- Amstel Gold Race and Sc♔heldeprijs fall victim to coronavirus
- UCI denies Giro d'Italia ꦓwill be resche🦂duled for late May
- Bigla-Kat❀usha's Chabbey on the front liꦫnes of coronavirus response
- Uttrup Ludwig:🌳 Coronavirus puts things in perspective
March 19 – Hinault asks for quick decision on Tour de France
With the coronavirus exploding across the globe and hospitals in Spain joining the ones in Italy in being overrun with patients, the voices calling for the Olympic Games and To꧂ur de France to be postponed began to rise.
Bernard Hinault, ambassador to the Tour de France, said: "If the Tour need♌s to be cancelled, let's not hesitate," adding that the latest the decision can ꦺbe ꦍmade would be early June.
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- Coronavirus: Santi༺ni to start making face masks instead of cycling clothing
- Van Vleuten left "aimless and plan-less" af🦩ter returning to the Netherlands
- Matt White: I fear for the future of some of the smaller r🍌aces
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March 20 – June Tour of Slovenia cancelled
The race cancellations began to move into June as the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Slovenia was cancelled. Egan Bernal, meanwhile, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:tested negative for the virus as he returned home to Colombia.
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- Bernal tests negativꦬe for coronavi𒆙rus after self-isolating on return to Colombia
- Nibali paus♏es racing plans as cycling becomes secondary to Covid-19 pandemic
- Dan Martin on coronavirus: Tak♓e a🗹 reality check and stay inside
- Deceuninck-Quickstep𓂃: Tour de France riders will likely get priority when racin✤g resumes
- Vanhoucke punched in the face several times byꦐ driver while train🌠ing
- Tour of Slovenia cancelled due t𝓰o c♏oronavirus pandemic
- Warning of two-speed Tour de France if some riders train outdoors during C♚ovid-19 lockdo💖wn
March 21 – Harm Vanhoucke assaulted while training
The escalating crisis threatens both the future of riders out of contract and races and, according to Quickstep boss Patrick Lefevere, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:the entire bus🌠iness model of cycling.
Lotto Soudal's Harm Vanhoucke, out training in Belgium where non-essential travel is prohibited but athletes are allowed to train alone outside, was 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:assaulted by a driver.
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- Vanhoucke punched in the face several times by dr♈iver while training
- Lefevere: The cycling model could colla🐓pse if the Tour de France is cancelled
- Dutch fed꧙eration president supports Olympic Games postponement
- Kalas hope to flatten the coronavirus curve with over🧜 9000 face masks
March 22 – IOC says Olympics cancellation not on agenda
The IOC issued a statement saying that cancellation of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo was not on the agenda. Elsehwere, Lotto Soudal riders Thomas De Gendt and Jasper De Buyst honoured Milan-San Remo with a 300km training ride.
- De ꦡGendt and De Buyst honour Milan-San Remo with 300km training r🥀ide
- George Bennett on꧃ life in lockdown and lo♋sing at Zwift
- IOC: Cancella▨tion of Olympic Games is not on the agenda
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March 23 – First nations pull out of Olympics
Canada and Australia became the first nations to pull out of the Olympic Games as IOC member Dick Pound said that the Olympics would have to be 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:postponed.
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- Froome and Van Baarle return home early from Southꦜ Africa to avoid coronavirus shutdown
- Riders put in mammoth virtual rides during coronavirus loc𒁃kdown
- Dick Pound says 𒁏2020 Olympic 🌊Games will be postponed
- Coronavirus: Canadian Leah Kiꦺrchmann chooses to stay in the Netherlands
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March 24 – Tokyo Olympics postponed to 2021
The big news of the day was the confirmed 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:postponement of the Olympic Games. In the wake of the announcement numerous athletes, including 2016 road race champions 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Anna van der Breggen and Greg Van Avermaet, gave their opinion of t💜he move.
- Tokyo Olympics to be postponed until 2021 due to coronavirus pandemi🎃c
- Cycling Australia tar�𝓀�gets potentially rescheduled Olympic Games in 16 months' time
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- Thibaut Pinot: I'ཧm at my peak but 2020 could be a lost year
- Annemiek van Vleuten: I'm mo🌠re concerned about global health than the Olympics
- UCI satisfied with Olymp🏅ics postponement 'in the health and sporting interests of the athletes'
- Anna van der 𓆉Breggen: Postponing the Olympic Games is a relief
- Fuglsang: It's a pity the 🌼Olympics have 🍸been postponed
- Van Avermaet: A safe Olympics wouldn't have been poꦡssible
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- Van de♛r Poel: A four-year plan for the Tokyo Games is⛦ ruined
- Cycling New Zealand announc🐈es support for Olympics postponement
- Coro🅰navirus: Trentin suggests a combined Italy-Spain-France Grand Tour
- Coronavirus: 💝British Cycling extends event suspension to June 30
- Dygert Owen supports postponement of Olympic Game🧔s
- Ben ♑King: I feel more at risk in the US th🧸an I did in Italy
March 25 – A Tour behind closed doors?
France's sports minister 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:suggested that the Tour de France could be held behind closed doors if it were to go ahead in July. UAE Team Emirates rider Max Richeze was finally released from hospital after testing negative for coronavirus. Meanwhile, the mayor of Kluisbergen said that reorganising the Tour of Flanders in 2020 was unlikely.
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- Coronavirus: C🐽ookson suggests 2020 Grand Tours be reduced to two weeks
- Coronavirus: Richeze relea🎀sed from ♎UAE hospital after double negative test
- Valverde targets delayed Tokyo Olympics: In 2021, I'll ♏be racing
- Deignan motivated to continue racing into 🍒delayed 2🌞021 Olympic Games
- Tour de Fra꧅nce could happen 🌌'behind closed doors' says French sports minister
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March 26 – Belgian riders face 50km training limit
Belgian riders face limits on time spent riding outdoors after the country's interior minister mooted a 50km rule in an interview with Het Nieuwsblad.
- Lefevere: I can't see how you can fit the Tour, Giro, Vuelta and Classics ꦐinto a few months
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- Pinot on coronavirus pandemic: Bike races mean no😼thing next to this
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- Israel Start-Up Nation doctors battlﷺe coronav𒈔irus on the front lines
- Coro🅷navirus: Belgian cyc💮lists could face 50km ride limit
- Thi♌baut Pinot's father tests positive for Covid-19
- Amanda Spratt: My goals and dreams haven't changed🗹 – just the dateܫs
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March 27 – Gaviria finally released from hospital
Fernando Gaviria was finally released from hospital in the UAE after testing negative for the virus. Elsewhere, Unipublic, the organisers of the Vuelta a España, said that they are working as if the race will go ahea♛d 🔯as planned in late August.
- ♊Vuelta a España organisers working as if race will go ahead as planned
- Madiot open to a Tour de Fra🍨nce behind closed doors
- Fernando Gaviria 🧔released from 💜UAE hospital after final coronavirus test
- Coronavirus: Lo﷽tto Souda🌳l riders voluntarily reduce pay
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March 28 – ASO give May 15 deadline for Tour decision
Tour de France organisers ASO reportedly 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:set a deadline of May 15 for a decision on whether the Tour de France will go ahead in July, behind closed doors, or be dꦕelayed.
- ASO set Ma🐷y 15 dead𒆙line for Tour de France decision
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- Coronaܫvirus: USA C👍ycling announce layoffs in anticipation of 30% revenue loss
- Spekenbrꦉink: For the Tour t✨o be run, it must be safe
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March 29 – Chabbey continues work in Swiss hospital
Bigla-Katusha rider Elise Chabbey 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:continues her work battling the virus in a Swiss hospital,ꦺ a mo⛄nth after starting.
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Teams cut riders' salaries as coronavirus hits sponsors
After Lotto Soudal announced voluntary pay cuts, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Astana cut its salaries 30 per cent after already having pay delays in January and February. The team confirmed it would trim pay 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:until racing resumes.
Bahrain Merida's riders and staff were hit even harder when the organisation 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:cut their pay 70 per cent through May.
The crisis led the AIGCP teams organisation to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:appeal to the UCI for help, while the women's team union UNIO 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:suggested the pandemic could put women'꧑s teams into jeopardy.
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UCI suspend through June as Tour of Utah cancelled
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Teams, riders, UCI, anti-doping suffer cuts
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Tour de France postponed, UCI calendar restructured
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