Tour de Suisse to use GPS trackers to alert organisers to crashes in wake of Swiss cycling tragedies
Men's and women's races will incorporate te💛chnology follow൩ing the deaths of Gino Mäder and Muriel Furrer in recent years

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.
The technology will be in place at the men's Tour de Suisse (June 15-22) and the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour de Suisse Women (June 12-15).
A report by the Zürich n✤ewspaper confirmed the news announced on Wednesday. Both races will feature a security centre with access to the GPS signals, plus all television feeds and a weather radar.
According to the repo𝄹rt, an alarm will sound if any GPS tracker stops moving for 30 seconds, if the speed of a tracker changes abnormally, or if a tracker leaves the road. While races have used tracking for live timing, the full tracking of all riders and the alarm system is a first in cycling.
The innovations have been paid for by the Tour de Suisse organisers at a cost of C🌺HF50,000 (£44,941 / $60,965).
🙈Senn had brought up these mea♋sures in an back in May, noting that the Tour de Suisse "will be the first bike race in the world to introduce comprehensive rider tracking."
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He said that teams would be able to opt out due to concerns over the "poss🅷ible commercial use of the collected data", but he hoped that all teams would opt in to using the trackers.
Participation is voluntary for the teams, but I hope that every team will take part," he said. "Each bike will be fitted꧙ with a small tracker that will sound an alarm in the event of certain anomalies, such as if the bike does not move for🐠 30 seconds, leaves the route or abruptly changes speed. In such cases, we are notified immediately and can react.
"We will also use trackers in the convoy, as each radio is equipped with a tracker. The information is gathered in the safety command centre where w𓆏e can monitor the entire situation𝓀 and intervene immediately if necessary."
The move to introduce the technology comes in tღhe wake of Furrer's crash last September. The 18-year-old suffered serious head injuries and died after an unseen off-road crash near Küsnacht on the Worlds fiꦓnishing circuit.
It's unknown exactly how long Furrer lay injured before she was discꦐovered and treated. The Tour de Suisse's alarm system would, in theory, enable the immediate detection of any riders caught in similar situations and could help speed up reaction times by organisers and emergency services to incidents.

Dani Ostanek is Senior News Writer at Cyclingnews, having joined in 2017 as a freelance contributor and later being hired full-time. Before joining the team, she had written for numerous major publications in the cycling world, including CyclingWeekly and Rouleur. She writes and edits at Cyclingnews as well as running newsletter, social media,🌟 and how to watch campaigns.
Dani has reported from the world's top races, including the Tour de France, Road World Championships, and the sprinꦗg Classics. She has interviewed many of the sport's biggest stars, including Mathieu van der Poel, Demi Vollering, and Remco Evenepoel, and her favourite races are the Giro d'Italia, Strade Bianche and Paris-Roubaix.
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