The Tour Down Under, the first race on the WorldTour 2021 calendar, will not take place from January 19 to 24 due to the coronavirus pandemic, its organizers announced on Sunday. Its director Hitaf Rasheed spoke of “the risks associated with quarantining and closing international borders. It was too much to ask of teams who endured a stressful, difficult and shortened 2020 season, which ended later than usual. ” The WorldTour race organized in Australia afterwards, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean (January 31), has also been canceled. The women’s Tour Down Under is also removed from the program, added its organizers who have planned in Adelaide and the region “a small national cycling festival.”
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