Amstel Gold Race Women has been neutralised on account of a motor accident on the route forward of the race. A police officer was injured when their motorcycle collided with a automobile on the Bergseweg climb.
The racing was dropped at a halt after 45km as a way to enable an ambulance to move the race and attain the scene of the accident. The peloton stopped at 11.00am native time, and the race had nonetheless not resumed nearly an hour later.
“A police motorcyclist was injured this morning round 11a.m. in a collision with a automobile on the Bergseweg in #Voerendaal whereas supervising the Amstel Gold Race. He was taken to hospital by ambulance. The Bergseweg has been closed off for an investigation by TTOV,” learn an announcement from the Limburg police unit.
After a pause of greater than an hour, it was determined that the ladies’s race would stay neutralised till reaching the ending circuit at Valkenburg. It was not but clear what number of laps of the ending circuit the ladies’s peloton would full.
Clara Emond (EF Education-Cannondale) and Quinty Schoens (VolkerWessels) had been on the assault simply forward of the peloton when the race was dropped at a halt.
The males’s race, which started after the ladies’s occasion, has been rerouted to keep away from the incident, and the boys’s peloton will thus miss the climb of the Bergseweg.
The resumption of the ladies’s race was sophisticated by the truth that organisers should keep away from overlap between the 2 occasions on their sinuous routes round Limburg.
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