Coronavirus restrictions force Ladies Tour of Norway cancellation
Social-distancing regulations and f♍oreign travel restrictions cited as main reasons to postpone until 2021

Organisers of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ladies Tour of Norway have announced that they have been forced to postpone the four-day stage ra🍰ce due to social-distancing and foreign travel restrictions in pace due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The event was scheduled to take place from August 13-16 as part of the revised late-s✅eason Women's WorldTour calendar, but will now look toward a return in 2021.
"It is mainly the rules regarding social distancing with 1 meter and the restrictions regarding entering Norway for foreigners tha♏t makes it impossible for us," says race director Roy Moberg.
"We have tried everything and we have asked fo൩r advice from the government and the responsible people for the 𝕴restrictions, but we have got no promises that things will be different by mid-August."
The UCI announced the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:revised-late season calendar in May and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Women's WorldTour had initially retained 18 of the original 22 events. It incl෴uded fiv🅷e stage races and 11 one-day races.
However, organisers of the two one-day races PostNord Vårgårda WestSweden team time trial and road race also 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:cancelled their events due to tr☂avel restrictions surrounding the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The cancellation of the Ladies Tour of Norwa𓃲y and the two V&arin✅g;rgårda events means that the Women's WorldTour calendar has now been reduced to 15 events.
The UCI President David Lappartient stressed that the published revised calendar remained highly dependent on the development of the COVID-19 virus along with the health precautions and guidelines stipulated in each natio𝔍n.
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Moberg said that the Ladies Tour of Norway is an international sport event with top riders from all over the world, however, those 💛high-profile teams and riders may not have the possibility to enter Norway to c♈ompete in the event.
"We have looked at all possible scenarios, ev🅰en to organize without audience and with the necessary p🔜rotections for COVID-19. But without riders we can not organize a WorldTour-race. So it is with a heavy heart we have taken this decision, but we promise to come back strong with a new 'Ladies Tour of Norway' in August 2021 at the highest level," Moberg said.
Last year, Scandinavian race organisers - Ladies Tour of Norway, Vårgårda West Sweden and the Danish Federation - unveiled plans for a new 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:ten-stage event that they believe will be the hardest race on the women’s calendar. The new race was to be knoꦯwn as the Battle of the North and set to make its debu🌳t in 2021, however, organisers have said those plans are now "unsure" due to the impacts of COVID-19.
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