Amstel Gold Race Girls has been neutralised and shortened because 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 delivered to a halt after 45km with a purpose to permit an ambulance to move the race and attain the scene of the accident. The peloton stopped at 11.00am native time, and the race wouldn’t resume for greater than an hour.
“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 a press release 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 later introduced that the riders would full three laps of the ending circuit fairly than the 4 laps initially deliberate.
Clara Emond (EF Schooling-Cannondale) and Quinty Schoens (VolkerWessels) had been on the assault simply forward of the peloton when the race was delivered to a halt.
The boys’s race, which started after the ladies’s occasion, has been rerouted to keep away from the incident, and the lads’s peloton will thus miss the climb of the Bergseweg.
The resumption of the ladies’s race was difficult by the necessity to keep away from overlap between the 2 Amstel Gold Race occasions on their sinuous routes round Limburg.
