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Cycling Ireland plans to imminently publish an updated road map relating to how the sport will re-emerge from the Covid19 restrictions.
The national governing body last
month set out a detailed road map cycling based on the Government’s plan to
ease restrictions in five phases, with Phase 5 scheduled to begin on August 10th.
Cycling Ireland detailed what the
road map meant for all forms of cycling – road, track, off-road, paracycling –
and how each stage would impact various types of racing and group events.
Under that place it was expected
that racing and other large group activities, including sportives, would resume
in Phase 5.
Last week stickybottle reported
that the national governing body had contacted clubs and offered them dates to
hold open races to the end of October.
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Under those plans a quick return
to competition was planned, with racing and sportives anticipated immediately
after Phase 5 started.
However, at the end of last week
the Government said it had decided to accelerate Ireland’s plan for easing
restrictions.
That process will now take place
in four phases rather than five and some measures anticipated later in the
initial plan were being brought forward.
Most immediately, cyclists will
from tomorrow be permitted to train anywhere in their home counties and also in
an area within a 20km radius of their home.
However, for now it remains
unclear if a faster return to competition and sportives will be possible. It is
also unclear if group rides may be possible earlier than August 10th.
Cycling Ireland intends to publish
an updated road map as early as tomorrow, Monday, and it is continuing to work
with clubs to put races in place up to the end of October.
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