The Higher Sports Council (CSD) will support the return of cycling competitions in Spain as long as they can “take place under optimal conditions of health safety and have obtained the approval of autonomous communities and municipalities”, which are the authorities that must give the approval to its celebration after the end of the state of alarm.
That is the message that the general director of Sports, Joaquín de Arístegui, has conveyed to Marcos Moral, director of the Vuelta a Burgos; Javier Guillén, CEO of Unipublic and LaVuelta; and José Luis Cerrón, president of the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation, during a meeting held this Wednesday at the Higher Sports Council in Madrid.
Both parties analyzed the program of Spanish and international cycling races foreseen in the calendar and established “a reinforced collaboration to analyze the needs and requirements that guarantee the holding of these professional tests with a totally safe character from the health point of view.”
The Vuelta a Burgos (July 28 – August 1) will be the first international cycling competition to be held in Europe and “will demonstrate the great ability of Spanish sport, and in this case of cycling, its companies and entities, to organize a safe event in the context of exit from the health crisis and return to the new normality, “explained Arístegui.
At the meeting, the decision was also made that the Spanish Cycling Federation and Unipublic “join the work carried out by the Task Force for the Promotion of Sport (GTID)”, in which other sports federations, clubs, private entities and athletes to successfully tackle the return of competitions after having successfully returned to training in safe conditions.
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