With race promoter RCS Sport facing pressure from leading teams, including EF Pro Cycling, and the Italian government preparing to suspend all sporting events for a month to control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, the 2020 season of Strade Bianche, Tirreno-Adriatico, and Milan-San Remo are all considered to be on the verge of collapse.

Italy's northern regions of Lombardy, Veneto, and Emilia Romagna are among the most heavily infected areas.

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"Every one of our riders and staff is eager and prepared to compete in these events. But we have to put those feelings aside and do what we think is right for our global community." Until 72 hours ago, I had not given this much thought, but thanks to some of the experts and the management team, I have been able to really consider the impact of the team moving from town to town in the affected areas. and really started to consider the impact of moving from town to town"

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"Healthy players and staff might be fine, but what about the elderly people who come to watch the games or pick up their bidets?" he asked.

"From what I understand, this is not to stop the inevitable spread of covid 19, but to help slow the spread until medical personnel and hospitals have time to catch up and prepare for the most vulnerable in hospitals and other facilities.

"This is not about panic. This is about taking responsibility."

"This is about taking responsibility. If these races are rescheduled, or if we come up with a way to eliminate this risk at this point, we're going to be there"

. [At the time of this writing, the virus was concentrated in northern Italy, mainly in Lombardy, where it was most severely affected, but has now begun to spread to the south, where isolated infections have been confirmed in all but one of Italy's 20 regions.

Medical experts have recommended that the Italian government suspend sports and public events for a month to slow the rate of infection. While soccer matches are played behind closed doors and may be televised, cycling races, by their very nature and because of the extensive public roads, make it virtually impossible to avoid contact with the crowds and respect the rules of contact with the general public.

Vaughters cited the example of virus prevention in China, exemplified by the fact that EF, the main sponsor of language education, has put hundreds of thousands of English classes online.

"We feel we need to respond," he said.

At least the Milan-San Remo cancellation will hardly come as a surprise to Vegni, the head of the RCS, who had openly discussed the possibility during the UAE tour.

"I think we have to fear that the national health administration and the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) might request the cancellation of Milan-San Remo, as they have already cancelled several Serie A soccer matches," Vegni said.

Meanwhile, there is growing disquiet over the RCS response to the coronavirus crisis at the ill-fated UAE Tour and the Italian promoter's stance on health and safety at future races.

Marc Madiot, general manager of the Groupama-FDJ team, whose players and staff are forced to stay in a hotel in Abu Dhabi along with members of Cofidis and Gazprom Rusvelo, appealed to the French Foreign Minister to pressure the players and staff to repatriate from the UAE The French Minister of Foreign Affairs has called for pressure to be exerted on the players and staff to be repatriated from the UAE as soon as possible.

"I know that the minister is working on it. We know that there has been an intervention, and we know that the French and Russian embassies are working to repatriate their own citizens." [The most difficult part is the yo-yo movement. 'We did the tests and they were negative. Suddenly, the problem happened and everything changed. All I want today is for everyone to go home to their families."