Tour de Suisse to use GPS trackers to alert organisers to crashes in wake of Swiss cycling tragedies

CHAMPAGNE SWITZERLAND JUNE 18 LR Jade Wiel of France and Team FDJSuez Femke De Vries of The Netherlands and Team Visma Lease A Bike Black Points Jersey Katarzyna Niewiadoma of Poland and Team CanyonSram Racing Noemi Ruegg of Switzerland and Team EF EducationCannondale and Mischa Bredewold of The Netherlands and Team SD WorxProtime lead the peloton during the 4th Tour de Suisse Women 2024 Stage 4 a 1275km stage from Champagne to Champagne UCIWWT on June 18 2024 in Champagne Switzerland Photo by Tim de WaeleGetty Images
𒅌The peloton in action at the 2024 Tourꩵ de Suisse Women (Image credit: Getty Images)

The 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:Tour de Suisse will equip all bikes and vehicles in the race convoys at their men's ꧋and women's events this month with GPS trackers as a way of quickly alerting the organisers to crashes.

The move comes after the crashes and deaths of 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:Gino Mäder at the 2023 Tour de Suisse and 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:Muriel Furrer at the junior𒊎 women's road 💞race at the World Championships in Zürich last year. Tour de Suisse race director Olivier Senn was also the director of the latter event.

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