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
The peloton in action at the 2024 Tour de Suisse Woꦫmen (Image credit: Getty Images)

The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Suisse will equip all bikes and v𓂃ehicles 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 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Gino Mäder at the 2023 Tour de Suisse and 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Muriel Furrer at the junior women's 🐭road race at the World Championships in Zürich last year. Tour de Suisse race directo♍r Olivier Senn was also the director of the latter event.

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