The UCI announced updates to its late-season revised calendars for the men’s and women’s WorldTour that include several date changes and event cancellations due to COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. Most notably, the Italian Monument 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Il Lombardia will move from October 31 to August 15 while three events on ♍the top-tier women’s calendar were forced 🐼to cancel.

The sport governing body revealed its revised men’s and women’s WorldTour calendars on May 5 as a replacement for plans tha✨t were halted due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The primary focus was placed on the three Grand Tours which have all been rescheduled; Tour de France (August 29-September 20), 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Giro d’Italia (October 2-25💦) and a shortened Vuelta a España (October 20-November 8). The five Monume🎃nts were also rescheduled with Milan San Remo taking place on August 8 while Il Lombardia will now move to August 15.

In the Wednesday edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport, RCS Sport indicated that 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Milan-San Remo was expected to be moved to August 15 and Il Lombaria to August 8, the revཧerse of what the UCI published Friday. 

RCS Sport expressed168澳洲5最新开奖结果: anger over the calendar changes after it had reportedly request to hold Milan-San Remo on the weekend preceding the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de France. The new calendar now sees the WorldTour kick off with Strade Bianche on August 1, Milan-San Remo on August 8 and Il Lombardia on August 1๊5, which will oveꦺrlap with the Critérium du Dauphiné from August 12-16. Tirreno-Adriatico will be held from September 7-14.

"We acknowledge the calendar published today by the UCI. As per tradition, Strade Bianche will open the one-day race season and Milano-Sanremo will be the first Classic Monument, followed by Il Lombardia," RCS Sport said in a press release.🌠 

"At this point we think about starting off safely and organizing the races in the best possible way. These calendar dates are a new challenge and will enter into the histo⛎ry of cycling, since these races have never been held in this period, and can symbolize the restart of our country and of our sport."

There were other changes to the ꧟men’s WorldTour including the cancellations of Eschborn-Frankfurt in Germany, Dwars door Vlaanderen in Belgium, and RideLondon-Surrey Classic in the UK. 

The EuroEyes Cyclassics Hamburg in Germany will now take place on October 3 and the Gree-Tour of Guangxi in China, previously scheduled for October 15-20, will now take place on📖 November 5-10. 

The initial 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:revisions of the Women&🔯rsquo;s WorldTour had retained 18 of the 22 events set to take place from August 1 to November 8. However, three events had already publicly announced cancellations due to health and travel restrictions surrounding COVID-19 including 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:🌟𝔍Postnord UCI WWT Vårgårda West Sweden TTT and road race (Sweden), as well as the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Ladies Tour of Norway. In addition, the Tour ofꦡ Guangxi in China has moved from October ꦕ20 to November 10.

The UCI also announced that the 2020 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships have been postponed one year and the 2021 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Champ🎐ionships, which were due to take place in Manizales (Colombia) have now been awarded to Elba (Italy).

"Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several UCI World Championships will not be disputed in 2020. Taking this unprecedented situation into account, the UCI Management Committee decided, as an exception, that UCI World Champions who are unable to defe𓆉nd their📖 title this year will be able to wear their rainbow jersey until the next edition of the relevant Worlds," read the UCI statement.