One year on from Swiss rider Murriel Furrer‘s tragic death following a crash at the World Championships, the UCI has decided to retire the race number she wore during the junior road race in Zurich.
In tribute to Furrer, no rider will wear 84 in Saturday’s junior women’s road race in Kigali, Rwanda, and it will no longer be assigned at future women’s junior road races at Worlds.
This came after a test of GPS tracking devices at the Tour de Romandie Féminin, and despite that test’s complications, it faced no pushback from national federations at Worlds. Its implementation will hopefully avoid a repeat of the unfortunate events which led to Furrer’s death a year ago on September 27.
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