The UCI has introduced that the 2024 Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships will proceed regardless of the intense accident suffered by Swiss racer Muriel Furrer within the junior ladies’s highway race on Thursday.
18-year-old Furrer fell closely throughout the race in Zurich, struggling a critical head harm within the course of. She was airlifted to hospital by emergency hospital and stays in a essential situation.
In an announcement launched on Friday morning, the UCI confirmed that the upcoming occasions on the Worlds, together with the elite highway races on the weekend, will go forward as deliberate “in accordance with the needs of the household of Muriel Furrer.”
The governing physique, Switzerland’s biking federation and the native organising committee have each agreed on this plan of action, with the Worlds persevering with with the boys’s C1 and C2, males’s T1-2 and girls’s T1-2 para-cycling occasions and the U23 males’s highway race afterward Friday.
“The 2024 UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland, will proceed in response to the race programme. The UCI, Swiss Cycling and the Local Organising Committee Zurich 2024 have agreed on this method,” learn an announcement issued by the UCI.
“The continuation of the occasion is happening with the settlement and in accordance with the needs of the household of Muriel Furrer. The household would love the 2024 UCI Road World Championships to proceed as deliberate.
“Muriel Furrer’s well being standing stays very essential. The UCI, Swiss Cycling and the Local Organising Committee Zurich 2024 are extraordinarily involved.”
The UCI concluded its assertion by reaffirming that the details of Furrer’s accident have nonetheless but to be established.
“At current, there are nonetheless no established details relating to how the accident occurred. Investigations by the competent authorities are ongoing.
“For this cause, no additional info will be given till additional discover.”
